Fentanyl leads OD cause

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[LiamHaddock]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/supervised-drug-site-fentanyl-1.3628411
Five new supervised injection sites could be opening somewhere in the Vancouver area, but health officials will not release the locations until they are approved by Health Canada.

Health Minister Terry Lake says the province wants to open the new sites — similar to the Insite facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside — to stop the soaring number of overdose deaths.

But according to Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Anna-Marie D'Angelo none of the new sites would be stand-alone sites like Insite.

Instead, all would be located inside existing facilities that already provide services for drug users.

Lake says he wants the federal government to reconsider laws that restrict these types of facilities so that health authorities can create more of these services. Under existing laws all the proposed sites still require Health Canada approval.

"We have seen the evidence. We know that we can reduce overdose deaths. We can reduce other related harms, reduce hospitalizations and connect people to services once they're ready to accept that help," said Lake.