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Free heroin? Unusual clinic offers 'chance at being human again'

Leonardo Palleja Nick Purdon

June 09, 2019 |

CBC |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver

In Vancouver, a program at the Crosstown Clinic is combatting drug overdoses by administering low-dose heroin to people who use drugs to keep them from experiencing withdrawal symptoms. The idea behind this approach is to treat the addiction like a medical problem rather than a criminal one.

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