Supervised Injection Sites: Yay or Nay?

Companies like Insite provides accessibility to (injection) drug users who have poor access to health care services. This group of people include those who:

• Use more than one drug
• Have both an addiction and mental illness
• Have a history of trauma
• Are homeless
• Live in shelters/substandard housing
• Are of Aboriginal descent
• Have tried to beat their drug addiction previously but were unsuccessful

Many view this program as beneficial because it ensures safe drug use (no sharing needles = less spread of diseases such as HIV), as well as decreased drug related crime rates. However, some may view it differently. What are your views? Do you think this program is beneficial to drug users?