Also in today’s edition: Tim Walz speaks, Swifties save and grizzly bears are spotted
Good morning. We’re digging into the debate over supervised drug-consumption sites – more on that below, along with reconciliation in Rwanda and Vancouver Island’s new grizzly bear cubs.in this country, someone dies of a drug overdose – a rate that escalated at the start of the pandemic and has stayed painfully high since. For decades, public health experts have advocated for harm-reduction programs, including places where people can access clean needles and use drugs under supervision.
I want to emphasize that it’s natural to be concerned about our children’s safety. But the location of these sites was very well thought out. All the research says you want to make the sites as accessible as possible, and one of the best ways is by putting them in places where people who use drugs are already receiving health and social services. It just so happens that in dense urban communities, that could be down the street from a school.
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