'We need the balance': Benefits and drawbacks of supervised injection sites

Update: 2024-07-22

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Supervised consumption sites have been around for decades in provinces across Canada. The sites give drug users a supervised space to consume drugs, get their supply tested and receive clean equipment. But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called on the federal government to shut down some of these programs, citing concerns that they attract drug dealing and other crime, making them part of the problem, not the solution.

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'We need the balance': Benefits and drawbacks of supervised injection sites

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'We need the balance': Benefits and drawbacks of supervised injection sites

'We need the balance': Benefits and drawbacks of supervised injection sites