Vancouver’s supervised injection sites

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About 115 people a day die from opioid overdoses in the US. It’s a public health crisis across North America. In Canada, Vancouver has been on the front lines of a different kind of response — more than 10 years ago, it established the first public supervised injection site in North America. Elana Gordon has the story from Vancouver.

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