Canada's toxic drug crisis highlights the need for supervised inhalation sites to address mental health, housing, and drug poisoning issues.

Canada's toxic drug poisoning crisis, worsened by mental health and housing challenges, emphasizes the need for safe consumption sites to provide indoor supervised inhalation services. As more individuals inhale drugs, the risk of poisoning is the same as with injection. British Columbia and Quebec have launched pilot projects for indoor supervised inhalation, but funding and adaptation of services are critical to meet the evolving needs of drug users and reduce drug poisonings, emergency service costs, and viral infection spread.

August 05, 2024
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