It is proven in this table that having a safe injection site is beneficial because it is lowering the number of overdoses occurring in the area significantly because alot of people are attending the facility to shoot up and that allows qualified employees to be able to assist them if anything goes wrong. Not only do Safe injection sites help to prevent overdoses but they also lowers the risk of getting AIDS.
One of the biggest diseases resulting from injection drugs is AIDS. AIDS meaning acquired immune deficiency syndrome, it is a serious disease of the immune system passed on usually from blood products, sexual contact or contaminated needles. With the help of Safe Injection Sites the number of people with AIDS because they used an already infected needle etc, will drastically decrease since they are now supplied with new equipment each time. However AIDS still remains as a big problem. It is said in 2001 that the, " number of adult AIDS cases related to injection drug use has increased to 21.7 percent of all new reported AIDS diagnoses in 2001, up from 8.3 percent of new AIDS cases in 1995." (Elliot, 2001). People believe that making safe injection sites would probably work based on the fact that needle exchange programs, that were implemented by non profit organizations had a positive impact. With the wide spread of sharing needles, re-using unsanitary needles has resulted in the spread of AIDS. It is said that "today at least one-third of injection drug users have HIV or AIDS." ( Hellewell, 2007). At InSite a safe injection site in Vancouver, users can bring in needles that have been used and get new ones for free. All of this is to try and reduce the amount of people sharing needles and reusing them. If they can eventually stop this the number of HIV/AIDS infected people will decrease. One of the main hopes of the project of safe injection sites is to reduce the level of HIV and Hep C, especially HIV since HIV is the beginning stage of AIDS.