Montreal has launched the first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America, as part of a package of services aimed at fighting back against an opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives across Canada. After years of lobbying by community organisations – the city opened its first safe injection site, alongside a two-booth mobile unit that will make its way through the downtown core. The services, which offer a medically supervised space and sterile equipment for people who use drugs intravenously, are Canada’s first such facilities outside of British Columbia. (See also: Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis)