Too sick to shoot up ? Call a volunteer

The Globe and Mail has a great moment in Canadian health care:

Addicts, crippled and blinded by their drug use and too sick to shoot themselves up, will be helped by a volunteer team of users to get high safely.

Forty members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users will be patrolling the Downtown Eastside, a slum and open drug market that teems with disease, offering injection education and assistance.

No,we didn't make this up.