Increase number of safe injection sites in high risk areas.

The Issue

Do you think we should be increasing the number of safe injection sites in your community? Safe injection sites provide drug users with a location where they can use their drug under supervision and with clean supplies. Overall, this reduces mortality rates as overdoses are witnessed and emergency services are more quickly activated, it reduces transmission of communicable diseases and related healthcare costs, and it also leads to some individual ceasing use of the drug upon witnessing the effects of the drug on another individual. Safe injection sites also connect drug users with appropriate information on the effects of drug use as well as other community resources that may be of assistance. 

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The Issue

Do you think we should be increasing the number of safe injection sites in your community? Safe injection sites provide drug users with a location where they can use their drug under supervision and with clean supplies. Overall, this reduces mortality rates as overdoses are witnessed and emergency services are more quickly activated, it reduces transmission of communicable diseases and related healthcare costs, and it also leads to some individual ceasing use of the drug upon witnessing the effects of the drug on another individual. Safe injection sites also connect drug users with appropriate information on the effects of drug use as well as other community resources that may be of assistance. 

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Petition created on January 31, 2023