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====Switzerland==== The first modern supervised consumption site was opened in [[Bern]], [[Switzerland]] in June, 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hedrich|first=Dagmar|date=February 2004|title=European report on drug consumption rooms|url=http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_2944_EN_consumption_rooms_report.pdf|access-date=October 5, 2020|publisher=European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction|archive-date=March 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326022000/http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_2944_EN_consumption_rooms_report.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Part of a project combatting HIV, the general concept of the café was a place where simple meals and beverages would be served, and information on safe sex, safe drug use, condoms and clean needles provided. Social workers providing counselling and referrals were also present. An injection room was not originally conceived, however, drug users began to use the facility for this purpose, and this soon became the most attractive aspect of the café. After discussions with the police and legislature, the café was turned into the first legally sanctioned drug consumption facility provided that no one under the age of 18 was admitted.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Haemmig|title=Injecting Illicit Drugs|author2=Ingrid van Beek|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|year=2005|isbn=978-1-4051-1360-1|editor1=Richard Pates|pages=160–169|chapter=13 Supervised Injecting Room|editor2=Andrew McBride|editor3=Karin Arnold}}</ref>
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