Every few weeks, he sits in a blue chair at the same desk inside its supervised consumption site to inject illicit drugs. Soon, he'll have to find another place to use, where there may not be anyone present to revive him if he overdoses. 'If they close these sites down, they're gonna have piles of bodies all over the place,' Chisholm said.
The Ontario government is planning legislation that will shutter at least five Toronto supervised drug consumption sites by March 2025 because they are located within 200 metres of schools or daycares.
The plan has set off fierce debate between those who see the sites as life-saving spaces and others who say they have made their neighbourhoods unsafe.
Staff also distribute clean syringes and other harm reduction supplies. It doesn't offer a safe supply program.
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