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Premier Ford says he's 'not sold' on supervised consumption sites (www.thetrillium.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The article really shows a fundamental lack of knowledge and misunderstanding by Doug, however he still states "They say that the safe injection sites help and everything; well, the numbers don't show that," he said. "

When the evidence shows the exact opposite.

"i think Mr. Ford actually needs to be briefed by the Ministry of Health about the positive impacts of supervised consumption sites — we do know that where they are located, we've seen a reduction in overdose deaths and they are effective at reducing the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C," said Zoë Dodd, co-organizer of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.

Doug was being a compulsive liar, as per usual.