Nothing in any of those studies are of any real value. One, of a couple, the sample size is absurdly small, because the number of people it impacts is absurdly small. Two, it seems to neglect the actual deaths included outside of the program. Having no ODs within the site doesn't mean they don't stumble off and die in an alleyway 12 blocks away.
Oh wait look at this.
Vancouver study shows fatal drug overdoses in downtown Eastside fell 35 per cent near Insite facility two years after it opened
www.theglobeandmail.com
The new study, which examined coroners' reports, shows that between 2001 and 2005, there were 290 overdose deaths in Vancouver.
(because you can't do the maths, 290/4= 72 per year. Whooptie fucking do. )
Eighty-nine of those deaths occurred within a 500-metre radius of Insite, which is located in the heart of Vancouver's skid row.
The safe-injection facility opened on Sept. 20, 2003, when the Liberal government was in power. Nurses can supervise IV drug users because the facility was specifically exempted from federal drug possession and trafficking laws. The Conservatives oppose this approach, saying it flies in the face of their anti-drug strategy.
In the two years prior to the opening, there were
56 OD deaths in the neighbourhood; in the two years subsequent, there were 33.
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You may now weep for your shattered buttcheeks and ego.