Opioid crisis: the rooms where they deliver doses of pure heroin in Canada

More than 8,000 people have lost their lives in Canada due to an overdose of opiates in the past two years.

The United States is the world's No. 2 consumer of these substances, according to an analysis by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).

Vancouver, in particular, has become one of the epicenters of the fthenyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin.

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This West Coast city, however, has decided to change the approach to this problem and face it as a public health crisis, rather than a criminal problem.

In recent years, for example, addicts can access websites to inject heroin under medical supervision.

In this video, a BBC journalist was able to see how this strategy is starting to yield positive results.

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