A Toronto hospital has opened a stand-alone clinic where paramedics can drop off homeless people who are intoxicated by alcohol so they can recover and then access services.
"We meet them where they're at and are non-judgmental," said Mario Telles, an overdose prevention personal support worker with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, who has been assigned to the new clinic for a month.
Nerissa MacLean is a case manager with The Neighbourhood Group who has worked with a mobile team for the past several years, going into shelters and out in the street. The centre has plans to expand its strict eligibility criteria. The big one: opioid use, which is far more prevalent and deadly on the streets than alcohol.
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