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The situation regarding heroin addicts in Norway is a matter of big concern and thus harm reduction measures are seen as an important supplement to help and treatment services to drug addicts. Public injection rooms are proposed to be included in the harm reduction strategy. In the article arguments in the Norwegian debate why public injecting should be established are discussed. Will public injecting rooms reduce the relatively high number of drug related deaths? Are public injecting rooms a measure in improving the bad health condition seen among the group of drug addicts? Will public injecting rooms be a way of raising the dignity of the drug addicts? Could public injecting rooms be motivated as a way of getting in touch with drug addicts? Will public injection rooms facilitate the misuse of drugs? What about public injecting rooms in the light of the UN-conventions and the penal laws? The main focus of the article is if public injecting rooms would be of any real help to the many problems seen in the group of heroin addicts.

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