A review of its first year in operation shows the mobile overdose prevention has seen tens of thousands of visits from people looking to access services or use drugs in a safe setting - that’s more than double what was initially anticipated. From 2022 to 2023, there were 26,154 visits to the site run by Sunshine House, a drop-in and resource centre. Over 7,000 of these were by individuals looking to consume drugs. There were 20 overdoses, four trips to the hospital at the individual’s request and no deaths were recorded. The report says many provinces responded by providing supervised places for people to use drugs with sterile equipment and supplies in a monitored space, but Man. failed to step up. Sunshine House received funding from the federal government to run the site.
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April 24, 2024