supervised consumption sites

Plans for supervised consumption sites sometimes result in a community backlash but the response in the Metro Vancouver community of Richmond, population 210,000, has been intense and protracted, lasting long after authorities said in mid-February that a proposal to explore the idea had been scrapped. 

Canada's mental health and addictions minister believes fear and stigma are driving criticism of the government's decision to support prescribing pharmaceuticals to drug users to combat the country's overdose crisis.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday that if he became prime minister, he would sue pharmaceutical companies as a way to fund drug treatment ⁠ — but he wouldn't say what he would do about sites where users can consume drugs under supervision.

With opioid deaths surging, the province’s decision to shut down the McCullough Centre in Gunn is just the latest example of the governing United Conservative Party’s callous disregard for the lives of people coping with addiction in Alberta, writes Susan Slade, a vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.