In the Vancouver Sun, an article with the headline “Two downtown locations propose as safe injection sites” appeared on March 5, 2003. It outlined the 200-page proposal of setting up two safe injection sites that the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority gave to Health Canada. This recent news concerns today’s society because it signals that there is a need in our community to address drug problems.
Intravenous drug users take drugs such as cocaine and heroin in liquid form inside a syringe and then inject the drug into a vein, usually in the arm. The injecting of such drugs into the human system is a dangerous one for many reasons. Cocaine produces an exceptionally pleasurable high for the user, but this high lasts for a very short amo
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