Coronavirus and opioid crises highlighting the need for stable housing If we want life to go back to “normal” sooner rather than later, we have to accept the fact that the health of the most vulnerable is entangled with our own By Sara Garnett https://nowtoronto.com/news/coronavirus-opioid-crisis-housing/ Toronto groups file legal action against city over its response to […]
Harm Reduction News & Events March 2020
News Toronto to lease hundreds of hotel rooms to ease crowding in homeless shelters Toronto says it will lease hundreds more hotel rooms to ease the crowding in its homeless shelter system in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, as a Montreal man became the country’s first homeless death from the virus. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-to-lease-hundreds-of-hotel-rooms-to-ease-crowding-in-homeless/ […]
February 2020 Harm Reduction News and Events
News How Toronto’s party scene can get safer using harm reduction “The good news is that there’s already many harm reduction services available for partiers and promoters to access and fold into their event programming.” https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/harm-reduction-toronto-parties/ OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed “Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says […]