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.

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.

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.

“We still need asylums, in the true sense of the word — places of peace, safety and effective therapy, refuges for people in distress who can’t cope by themselves.”

On September 11, officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for Willingdon Creek Village, a $26.5-million project that will replace the Olive Devaud Residence. With quotes from Colin Palmer, chair of the Powell River Regional Hospital District Board and Kip Woodward, chair of the VCH board.

Mental health clinics in the Lower Mainland have reduced their daily hours due to budget cuts. With quotes from Sarbi Aujla, a senior mental health worker at VCH.

“Insite has now been around for a decade. Isn’t it time we used the insight gleaned from their experience to create a smarter drug strategy?” With mention of VCH’s Insite facility.

A St. Paul’s Hospital researcher is warning women that relying on traditional heart attack symptom can lead to dangerous misdiagnoses. With quotes from Dr. Nadia Khan, a UBC/Providence Health Care researcher.

New research has shown that chest pain was absent in about 20 per cent of women who had a heart attack. With quotes from Dr. Nadia Khan, a UBC/Providence Health Care researcher.