Across Ontario, volunteers are conducting overdose prevention training sessions as the province moves to ban supervised drug consumption services (SCS). These initiatives aim to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to recognize overdoses, administer CPR, and use naloxone. Organizers emphasize the increased risk of public overdoses due to the closure of SCSs, urging the general public to be prepared.
Overdose prevention training sessions are being held across Ontario as the province moves to ban supervised drug consumption services and limit other harm reduction measures.
“So essentially, with the Ford government’s decisions to close supervised consumption sites, we’re recognizing and naming that there’s going to be a lot more people who are using substances publicly, which means that there’s a higher risk of people overdosing in public spaces, like where I’m standing right now ,” Lorraine Lam, a frontline worker who is helping organize with TOPS, told CP24 late Wednesday afternoon.
This proposed plan will affect 10 programs that offer supervised drug consumption sites in the province, five of which are in Toronto. These locations must close their doors no later than March 31, 2025. “Communities will now be forced to contend with the extremely distressing task of responding to overdoses. By removing some of the only spaces where people are able to use safely, Premier Ford and Minister Jones are not only abandoning people who use drugs, but downloading this grave responsibility onto neighbours and bystanders,” she charged.
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