‘Ottawa’ Safe-injection ‘micro-sites’ Eyed Across Ottawa
Three more Ottawa community health centres are making plans to open safe-injection sites for drug users, following the lead of the one that serves Sandy Hill.
The boards at the Somerset West and Centretown community health centres have voted to have their respective staffs figure out the logistics of adding a supervised facility for chronic users of hard drugs to use them in a clean place with trained staff ready to respond to overdoses.
That puts them behind (but not by much) the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre on Rideau Street, which has similar plans.
The Carlington Community Health Centre on Merivale Road is a step behind them. Its board supports the idea of safe-injection sites and is expected to vote in the fall on whether to closely examine prospects for opening one at its centre.