P.E.I. government pauses supervised injection site plans | CBC News P.E.I.’s chief public health officer says the province has decided to pause the establishment of a supervised injection site and instead prioritize strengthening its existing harm reduction initiative...

P.E.I. government pauses supervised injection site plans

Province instead focuses on harm reduction measures

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#PEI #PEIPoli #SupervisedInjectionSites #HarmReductionMeasures

The NYSPA Report: Overdose Prevention Centers Keep Our People Alive People with opioid use disorder (OUD) have a high prevalence of a serious mental illness (SMI). Nearly 27% of people with an OUD had a co-occurring SMI

Effective #HarmReduction measures like #SupervisedInjectionSites, #naloxone, #fentanyl tests, and #OverdosePreventionCenters have been hindered by legal obstacles. Changing the federal "Crack House Statute" could expand life-saving efforts.

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