According to the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, since the mid 1990s, Vancouver has been “the epicentre of a longstanding illicit drug-use epidemic” (7). In 2003, Vancouver opened its first safe injection site, Insite, in the Downtown Eastside, where long-term illicit drug use was most prevalent. A safe injection site is a “safe, health-focused facility where illicit drug users can come to self-inject their self-acquired drugs using site-provided sterile equipment under the care and supervision of medical professionals” (Vancouver Coastal Health). The underlying ethical…