Quebec is boosting funding for supervised consumption websites in Montreal to stop overdoses as town grapples with homelessness and substance abuse points.
The province is dedicating an extra $1.5 million for companies focused to drug customers, together with $1.2 million that can go to 4 organizations in Montreal’s downtown, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Village neighbourhoods.
The Village turned the main focus of Montreal’s homelessness and drug abuse points earlier this summer time when town launched an motion plan to deal with resident and business house owners’ issues about security.
Another $252,000 will go to Montreal public well being to develop supervised consumption websites, that are locations the place individuals can deliver their very own medication to make use of within the presence of educated workers.
Annie Aubertin, director of a Montreal supervised drug-use website, says the extra funding will enable the non-profit to increase its working hours after it had beforehand decreased them.
She says the decriminalization of drug use would additional assist to cut back stigma, however Lionel Carmant, junior well being minister, says the federal government isn’t pursuing such a coverage change.
