Several community harm reduction and treatment partners came together for an opioid-related panel discussion at the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival on Saturday
It was an educational morning at The Grand Theatre on Saturday as organizers of the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival invited Algoma Public Health to facilitate a panel discussion following the screening of Love in the Time of Fentanyl.
One of Saturday’s panellists was Jill McPhee, a mother of an addicted child who currently works with SOYA. “In the Sault, homelessness is still here, and because maybe we don’t see it as much, it makes solutions difficult in this community,” she says. “I’ve lost tons of friends to this disease, and it’s heartbreaking.”Algoma Public Health says the number of opioid-related deaths in northern Ontario nearly doubled in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the year leading up to it.
“I love the wellness bus, but we need them more,” she says. “We need more funding. The hospital has withdrawal management coming in the future – I need that ribbon cut.”
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