Episode 3: Unsanctioned

Two men sit in the injection room at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug User’s storefront. (Photo: Alexander Kim)

Across North America, governments are opposing supervised injection sites. In Crackdown‘s third episode, we tell you how to open one anyway.

Vancouver has become famous for Insite–North America’s first supervised injection facility. Insite is one of the more exciting (and effective) drug policy interventions in the world. However, most people don’t know about the story of civil disobedience that preceded it, or that came after.

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Boomer prepares harm reduction supplies at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. (Photo: Alexander Kim)

Activists protesting for a supervised injection facility in Halifax. (Photo: Matt Bonn)

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