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RSS Feeds`People are going to die.` Majority of Torontonians disagree with withdrawing funds for supervised drug consumption sites, poll finds
(The Star Environment)

 
 

19 april 2019 17:14:49

 
`People are going to die.` Majority of Torontonians disagree with withdrawing funds for supervised drug consumption sites, poll finds
(The Star Environment)
 


Christine Zinni says she has lost count of the number of friends, colleagues and loved ones who have died of opioid overdoses over the past three years. “There are so many I don’t know how to deal with it anymore,” said Zinni, 47, a harm reduction worker. A low estimate, she told the Star, is 30 people in or connected to her immediate circle. “If I sat down and started writing a list I would probably break down.” With overdose deaths on the rise, Zinni and fellow members of the harm reduction community are struggling to understand why Ontario’s health ministry pulled funding from sites where people could use drugs under supervision in late March — including two in Toronto. A third site run by Toronto Public Health was left in limbo. “People are going to die. They are playing politics with peoples lives,” Zinni said. “You can’t treat a dead addict.” Zinni is not alone in her thinking. A majority of Torontonians disagree with the funding being withdrawn for services, a new poll shows. Two thirds also said they thought the sites are an effective way to save lives.Two thirds of Torontonians, 65 per cent, said they disapproved of the provincial decision, according to a poll by Forum Research Inc., conducted for the Star. A total of 1,110 people, from the former city of Toronto, East York, North York, Etobicoke, York and Scarborough responded through an interactive phone survey. Read more:Ottawa gives temporary reprieve to Toronto drug consumption sites that the province planned to close Editorial | Ford government puts lives at risk by reducing injection sitesToronto council makes decisions and Doug Ford’s government keeps changing themAbout 25 per cent said they approved taking away funding and 9 per cent said they didn’t know. In the former city of Toronto — where services are concentrated — 76 per cent disapproved, 16 per cent were in favour and 8 per cent said they did ...


 
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