First of three safe injection sites for drug users opens in downtown Montreal
MONTREAL — The first of three safe injection sites for Montreal drug users opened its doors Monday, with one official estimating it will handle between 120 and 240 injections a day.
The site will be open 12 hours a day, CACTUS Montreal spokesman Louis Letellier de St-Just said in an interview.
“It’s been a long journey,” he said, referring to a Supreme Court ruling from 2011.
“The (court) said that addiction was a disease and safe injection sites were health services and they were needed where the needs are.”