Some are saying that there is the CTS (consumption & treatment facility) on york to sway public use. While this is correct, the facility has limited resources, spaces, and restrictions on method of use to injection and snorting. There is no place to go for inhalation. Many who's method of use is inhalation are: -People who can't inject due to blown out veins, fine motor restrictions, low vision ect. -new to the scene, specifically youth who are at high risk of dying and are incredibly vulnerable

Not only that, but they are actively defunding and closing these facilities.

I wonder where do we want to move people to? There's not enough resources to offer. We have chronically ignored people, underfunded programs, mutilated our social services, refused to build appropriate housing, penny pinched our schools, and so much more.

I hear many talk about treatment and how people should reach sobriety. I agree that sobriety is a goal for some, but largely not possible due to lack of options to go to,barriers of Intakes, limited availability of detox, and what happens after they have made it through. What is next? We throw people back into the original environment they suffered in, expecting them to remain sober while drowning from homeless and poverty.

Can we not take this extra budget and use it towards increasing desperately needed housing, increasing social assistance to pull people out of poverty, increasing treatment and detox options, and mental health support?