Nine Ontario supervised consumption facilities located within 200 metres of schools and child care centres have been closed and transformed into addiction resource hubs as part of a provincial push to move away from drug injection sites.
March 31 marked the official deadline for supervised drug injection sites near schools or day care facilities to secure government funding for their shift to the new recovery-based model, the provincial government said in a press release.
The province announced its plan to ban supervised consumption sites near schools and day-care centres last August as part of Bill 223, the Stronger Communities Act. The ban meant 10 of 23 Ontario sites would be closed unless they qualified for government funding and switched to the Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub model laid out by the province….