France opens its first supervised injection centre for drug users


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Oct 2016

PARIS (Reuters) - France inaugurated its first supervised injection facility for drug users on Tuesday, setting aside years of acrimonious debate over the merits of a strategy that has slowly gained traction since the Swiss embraced it three decades ago.

France's Socialist government pushed legislation permitting supervised injection centres through parliament last year. The world's first such facility opened in the Swiss city of Berne in 1986.

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