Without safe injection sites, more opioid users will die
The abrupt refusal to renew funding for safe injection sites will unquestionably lead to more Canadians dying
The Conversation (UK)
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Ontario is undoubtedly in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. From January to September 2018, an incredible 1,031 Ontarians died of an overdose. The number of deaths in the province is second only to the 1,155 deaths in British Columbia, dubbed the “ground zero” of the overdose epidemic in North America. Yet with no signs of the crisis slowing down, the Ontario government announced in April that they would abruptly halt funding for several safe injection sites — an unprecedented and dangerous step backwards in curtailing the public health emergency.
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