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Richard Chenery rests after injecting heroin he bought on the street at the Insite safe injection clinic. Insite, North America's first and only legal injection site, promoted by its founders as a safe, humane facility for drug abusers, is now facing a court challenge from the Conservative government that sees it as a facilitator of drug abuse. The case opens before the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Thursday, May 12, 2011 and has drawn international attention.
Insite Safe Injection Clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 11 May 2011