Toronto Public Health supports safe injection sites
Toronto Public Health has released a report recommending the city should create supervised safe injection sites for drug users. The health board will consider the matter on July 10.
View ArticleToronto’s Board of Health approves a report supporting safe-injection sites
Toronto’s Board of Health has thrown its support behind safe-injection sites, approving a report that recommends a pilot project for the city. Toronto Public Health presented the report at a board...
View ArticleConstruction begins on 1 of 3 Toronto safe injection sites
Construction on one of three safe injection sites in Toronto began on Tuesday. The site is located inside the Toronto Public Health building on Victoria Street at Dundas Street. The other two sites...
View ArticleUnsanctioned, pop-up safe injection site opens at Moss Park
While the first of three safe injection sites in Toronto isn’t scheduled to open until sometime this fall, harm reduction workers in the city aren’t waiting that long. Members of Toronto Harm...
View ArticleResidents raise concerns over discarded syringes around needle exchanges
As harm reduction programs grow across the country, providing clean needles to drug users, residents in some communities are calling on local governments to do more to clean up public spaces where they...
View ArticleOntario pauses opening three overdose prevention sites as it conducts review
Ontario’s health minister says the province will hold off on opening three new temporary overdose-prevention sites intended to help fight the opioid crisis. Christine Elliott says the sites in Thunder...
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