Opioid vending machine opens in Vancouver
(The Guardian Canada)

MySafe scheme for addicts aims to help reduce overdose deaths in Canadian cityA vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city´s overdose crisis.The MySafe project, which resembles a cash machine, gives addicts access to a prescribed amount of medical quality hydromorphone, a drug about twice as powerful as heroin. Related: Report reveals severe lack of services for UK opioid painkiller addicts Related: Portugal´s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn´t the world copied it? Continue reading...