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• Surrey supervised injection site sees 20K visits in first 6 months

  Operators say the facility has about 1,000 regular users, and that the facility is saving lives. 

  Health

  Dec 6, 2017
  
• B.C. overdose deaths — Drug supply is unsafe, don’t take the risk of dabbling: Coroner

  With an average of more than four overdose deaths a day due to illicit drug use in B.C. in May, the coroners service is warning against anyone dabbling or experimenting with drugs because the risk is simply too high.

  Jun 30, 2017
  
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• Surrey safe-injection sites approved to supervise snorting drugs or taking them orally

  Two Surrey drug injection sites became the first of its kind to get approval from Health Canada to allow users to snort illicit substances or take them orally under medical supervision.

  Health

  Jun 27, 2017
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• Safe injection site set to open in Surrey

  Drug users will start injecting their own heroin or other illicit substances at a new supervised injection site opening this week in Surrey in an effort to curb a crisis in overdose deaths.

  Jun 6, 2017