Court halts closure of Canada's safe-injection site.

摘要

British Columbia's highest court has halted the Canadian Government's plans to close Insite-North America's on|y government-sanctioned safe-injection site for drug users. In a ruling on May 27, 2008, that the government immediately vowed to appeal, Justice Ian Pitfield, of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, concluded that right-to-life provisions within the Canadian constitution legally entitle drug users to health care in the form of safe-injection facilities. In his ruling, Pitfield said he firmly rejected "Canada's submission that an addict must feed his addiction in an unsafe environment when a safe environment that may lead to rehabilitation is the alternative".