In an article on December 2 in El Periodico, the writer describes how in 2010 there will be injection rooms for recovering drug addicts to take methadone in the Gracia, Sant Marti and Les Corts areas. The CAS (Centro de Atencion y Seguimiento) are the places that offer metadone injections to try and help these heroine addicts. All districts in Barcelona have a CAS except these neighborhoods. This plan is to prevent high concentration of addicts in places like Ciutat Villa.
Currently the only centers with these injection rooms are in Raval and Vall d´Hebron. The rooms are intended for the addicts to inject their medicine with proper hygiene and medical assistance. There is a big debate whether this is a good idea, and most people in these 3 districts are not happy about the future opening of the CAS.
Here is a link to the actual article online: http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=666958&idseccio_PK=1022
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