Have you been inside, or seen the inside of, InSite?
Like me, you probably haven’t – most people would never have a reason too.
At the same time, you’ve probably heard a lot about it, and maybe formed your own opinion about the safe injection site in Vancouver. InSite has sparked the debate across the country about harm reduction methods, like providing clean needles and a safe place for drug injection alongside social, educational and health resources.
In a new episode this week, Dan brings us inside InSite with his short film, Safe Side. Dan credits the organisation with helping him kick heroine and to restart methadone treatments, and he wants to show people what it is like inside. It’s empty when the camera rolls in, for obvious reasons, but the film is still powerful in it’s simplicity: just by allowing people to see what it looks like inside can help dispel myths about what takes place in a safe injection area and brings home the message that it is a clinic, a social service and a community centre rolled into one.
Take a look:
Five other new films online this week, including another piece from Dan, and videos from John & Lacey, Lulu, Briony, and Erica. We’ll be posting more about some of these stories in the coming days.
Tags: harm reduction, Insite, safe injection site, Vancouver
Yah it’s bad enough that i was addicted and suffered for twenty years now many more children grandchildren mothers father’s aunt’s uncle’s etc will be able to take advantage of the sureal injection site we have here in Vancouver. Today if i could change one thing in the dtes zoo it would be the need for 200 more detox beds, this seems to be a the bottom of the addiction support list. For me and any one who has survived this most famous part of town we grieve, our fallen brothers and sisters who now have a system in place that to us seems terminal
THE HARSH REALITY OF ADDICTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNWCPDrJsM