Injecting Room

Supervised consumption sites were sold as a disciplined, tightly monitored answer to the overdose crisis. In Alberta, the evidence suggests something far messier: weak oversight, fuzzy statistics, rising disorder, and a public policy that keeps asking citizens to trust what it does not fully measure. The claim that these facilities are “safe” has become a rhetorical […]

Some Research… Toronto’s Supervised Consumption Sites and Local Crime Abstract Importance: Beginning in August 2017, 9 overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites (OPS/SCS) began operating in Toronto, Canada. Following years of community pushback stating that these sites increased local crime and disorder, they were closed in March 2025. Objective: To examine the association between OPS/SCS and

Glasgow fix room dealers are openly flogging heroin and cocaine to addicts at the gates of Britain’s first safer drug consumption facility. Pushers target vulnerable users outside The Thistle Hub, a £2.3 million a year centre in the Calton district. Campaigners say it is an open secret. Authorities, they warn, look the other way. Drug

The opioid crisis continues to devastate communities across Canada and beyond, with recent research highlighting alarming treatment retention failures that underscore why prevention must be our primary defence. A comprehensive study examining opioid agonist therapy amongst First Nations people in Ontario reveals shocking statistics that every family, educator, and community leader must understand. The Stark

  The Melbourne injecting room has come under sharp criticism following revelations of astonishing overdose rates. Over an 18-month period after the facility’s opening in July 2018, startling statistics showed 23.5 overdoses per 1,000 heroin injections at the MSIR facility, a figure that eclipsed comparable street overdose statistics of just 0.23 per 1,000 injections. This equates

Advocates often promote injecting rooms, also called supervised injection facilities, as a way to minimise drug-related harm. Proponents suggest these facilities save lives and reduce community issues such as public drug use and discarded needles. However, a closer look at available data raises concerns about injecting room effectiveness, particularly in reducing fatalities or improving conditions

Calls for an additional injecting room in the Western Suburbs of Sydney have led Drug Free Australia to once again highlight the failure of the Kings Cross injecting room, which hosts overdose rates 63 times higher than clients’ own overdose histories before entering the room. When new clients enter the Kings Cross injecting room for the first time, they