In her annual report, Ontario's Auditor General Shelley Spence criticized the province's opioid strategy and found that the 10 supervised drug consumption sites set to close this spring prevented nearly 1,600 fatal opioid overdoses in a year.
The 10 supervised drug consumption sites being forced to shut down this spring prevented nearly 1,600 fatal opioid overdoses in one year, Ontario ’s auditor general has found.
The PCs passed the legislation closing the facilities, Bill 223, on Monday, one day before Spence's report. Minister Jones denied responsibility for the closures since they were municipally funded when they had opened, but the AG report states that allowing them to close will still hurt residents in Northern Ontario.
Nor did it consult with Public Health Ontario, finding it only included internal stakeholders, including other ministries and Ontario Health. The report recommends to the Ministry of Health that it "complete all necessary planning work before transitioning to the new HART Hubs," including impact, risk and financial analysis, to "engage with all relevant stakeholders, and come up with a framework for measuring the HART Hubs' performance — something the province also doesn't have.
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