MDs oppose Clement on safe-injection sites

Federal Health Minister Tony Clement contends safe-injection sites may well violate the standards of medical ethics, a position that earned him a crisp and swift rebuke from the country's largest doctors' group.

Speaking to the Canadian Medical Association's annual assembly, Clement stepped up his attacks on Insite, a controversial supervised injection centre in Vancouver's heroin-blighted Downtown Eastside, where intravenous drug users are allowed to shoot up.

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