What is a 'heroin injection site'?

What is a 'heroin injection site'?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'heroin injection site'?; What controversial heroin treatments are being tried in Europe?; How do police departments in the United States and Canada react to injection sites? and more...

A heroin injection site is an injection site in which, among other drugs, you are allowed to inject heroin. Injection sites have been put into business, I think in something like 90 different cities, many in Europe, a span of seven different countries and the purpose of it is two fold. One is to take care of local nuisance problem where addicts assemble and cause nuisance to that particular neighborhood. The other go and the other thing that you can achieve is that if people take drugs inside and injection facility, they do so in a hygienically manner, they do so in a safe manner because they are not alone the water they use will be clean water not water of some unhygienic source. If they have a medical problem it will be attended to, so that's the basic philosophy of this injection site in which people can also inject their street heroin.