17:41 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nCanada’s Supreme Court will on Thursday begin hearing arguments over the legality of a “safe injection site” for addicts in Vancouver, which the federal government says facilitates drug use.<\/p>\n
The founders of the taxpayer-funded site say it provides a form of health care backed by the constitution.<\/p>\n
But the government says the facility, Insite, must still close because heroin is a federally banned substance.<\/p>\n
The site provides clean needles and sterilised water to drug addicts.<\/p>\n
Insite, which is the first and only facility of its kind in Canada, also staffs nurses who supervise drug abusers injecting themselves.<\/p>\n
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government took its request to close the facility to the British Columbia Court of Appeal in 2009.<\/p>\n
The court ruled 2-1 against the government.<\/p>\n
More than 60 injection facilities were in operation in 2009 in 26 other cities in Australia and western Europe, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization has said such sites are a “priority intervention” in reducing the spread of Aids through infected needles.<\/p>\n
The case, which will open in Ottawa, has drawn international attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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