The In-Site Injection centre, Vancouver Canada; Founder Liz Evans

Free Wednesday?

Rebecca Bury writes`;

There has been a lot of talk recently by Minister for Drugs, Aodhan O’Riordan, about the introduction of a medically supervised injection site in Dublin sometime later this year.

With this in mind Vancouver-based Liz Evans, the founder of the first and only supervised injection site in North America, will be in Dublin to share the story of the successes and struggles of the centre with the hope of encouraging Ireland to set up its first site.

Over the past thirteen years more than two million injections have taken place in the centre without one death. The service prevents on average twenty-five fatal overdoses a month and refers more than 400 people into treatment every year.