Study finds Canada's supervised injection facility cost-effective

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Canada's only supervised injection facility is extending lives and saving the health-care system millions of dollars, a new study shows. In analysing the cost-effectiveness of Vancouver-based Insite, a safe injection facility in a downtown neighbourhood where about 5,000 injection drug users live, researchers found $14 million in savings and health gains of 920 life-years over 10 years...

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