As clock ticks down for Ontario consumption sites, users fear they won’t survive

There is strong evidence, backed by numbers and analysis in Canada and abroad, that supervised injection sites are reducing overdose deaths, saving the health-care system and the public money, and preventing the transmission of blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C, Kolla said. “Still, despite this, we get reactionary drug policy that does not at all actually fit with the evidence that we have,” she said. Above: Staff work to reverse an overdose at the Moss Park supervised consumption site in Toronto