Ontario commits to funding 3 supervised safe injection sites in Toronto

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Ontario commits to funding 3 supervised safe injection sites in Toronto

18 January 2017

Ontario’s health minister says “more can be done” to tackle the opioid crisis at a community level in the province and has committed to funding three supervised safe injection sites in Toronto at an estimated annual cost of about $1.6 million and an initial cost of $400,000.

Dr. Eric Hoskins wrote a letter to Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott in conjunction with Toronto’s application for exemption under the Controlled Substances Act to provide the sites at three existing health care facilities.

Those include The Works Toronto Public Health building on Victoria Street, the Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre on Bathurst Street and the South Riverdale Community Health Centre on Queen Street East.

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