In its annual report, the board also warned governments that they risked violating international law by allowing drug injection rooms, where heroin addicts can get clean needles and a safe place to shoot up.
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In 1999 he publicly criticised the opening of a legal heroin injection room in Kings Cross, Sydney and in 2000 he publicly commented that the prosecution of alleged World War II war criminal Konrad Kalejs was unrealistic.
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Switzerland, attempting to reduce overdoses, dangerous injecting practices, and shooting up in public places, has also taken the lead in establishing " safe injection rooms " where users can inject their drugs under secure, sanitary conditions.
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The out-patient clinic building was the first building built, and was dedicated in February 1959 . The following year, construction began on the male / female ward and the operating theatre ( on the site of the present injection room ).
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The U . N . board said, " Drug injection rooms ( or any other similar outlets established in some developed countries ) might even facilitate drug abuse, are contrary to the international drug control treaties and interfere with obligations of law enforcement authorities ."
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Dr . Urban Weber, director of an agency that runs two of the four safe-injection rooms in Frankfurt, Germany, said that the approach had helped reduce overdose deaths there from 147 in 1992, shortly before the injection program began, to 26 in 1999.
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Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain continue to experiment with medically supervised injection rooms, despite the INCB's objections that the Single Convention's allowance of " scientific purposes " is limited to clinical trials of pharmaceutical grade drugs and not public health interventions.
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The governors Bush _ George W . of Texas and Jeb of Florida _ alternate as hosts, providing a detailed review of the doomed inmate's crime and a tour of the specific gas chamber, gallows, electric chair or lethal injection room in which he / she will die.
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In April 2007, staff of the California Legislative Analyst's Office discovered that a new execution chamber was being built at San Quentin; legislators subsequently " accuse [ d ] the governor of hiding the project from the Legislature and the public . " The old lethal injection facility had included an injection room of and a single viewing area; the facility that was being built included an injection chamber of and three viewing areas for family, victim, and press.
