Supporters will gather this weekend in the Downtown Eastside to mark the 10th anniversary of North America’s first legal supervised injection site.

Supporters say after more than two million visits, no one has died at the supervised injection site. Quotes from Mark Townsend of Portland Hotel Society.

Insite is celebrating 10 successful years. So why is the safe injection site still generating a lot of controversy?

Insite has helped improve life in the Downtown Eastside. Quotes from Mark Townsend of Portland Hotel Society.

The Doctors vs. Nurses event on Saturday (Sept. 21) at 3 p.m. at LaRoy Watt Field is a softball game to raise money for the Squamish Hospice Society (SHS), which provides support for people and families facing palliative-care situations.

The chair of Aboriginal Child and Maternal Health at Thompson Rivers University argues more long-term and culturally appropriate services are needed for Canada’s aboriginal population. With quotes from Diana Day of Vancouver Coastal Health’s Aboriginal Health Strategic Initiatives.

Health reporter and columnist Andre Picard thinks the way we talk about Insite, a safe injection facility in Vancouver, has still not caught up with the facts

Rather than being made to jump through hoops, Insite should serve as a model for the rest of the country, Lewis said.

Ten years ago this week, Insite, North America’s first supervised drug injection site, opened at 139 East Hastings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, thanks mainly to two men, Dr. Julio Montaner and Thomas Kerr of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

The chair of Aboriginal Child and Maternal Health at Thompson Rivers University argues more long-term and culturally appropriate services are needed for Canada’s aboriginal population. With quotes from Diana Day of Vancouver Coastal Health’s Aboriginal Health Strategic Initiatives.