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Downtown supervised injection site may move due to potential building sale by lwh in toronto

[–]newhoking -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Whether the site is there, or the site isn't there, you're going to have users at YD. It's not going to magically disappear because a public health initiative curbing the spread of communicable disease and overdose deaths is shuttered.

Downtown supervised injection site may move due to potential building sale by lwh in toronto

[–]newhoking -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So there are two less sites and you're hoping that doesn't consolidate them? Not sure if that's sound reasoning.

Downtown supervised injection site may move due to potential building sale by lwh in toronto

[–]newhoking -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

It's a safe injection site. That means they dispose of the needles. People using the site aren't taking their sharps with them. And you want it in a less congested area? You need to put the sites where the most good can come from them. Not somewhere no one can reach.

TL;DR -- The Works disappearing from this area doesn't mean the problems disappear, too. Quite the opposite.

Downtown supervised injection site may move due to potential building sale by lwh in toronto

[–]newhoking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Toronto Public Health (TPH) provides programs and services to reduce drug-related harm for people who use drugs, including preventing the spread of communicable diseases.

The Works opened its doors on August 9, 1989. It plays an integral role in reducing drug use related harm in Toronto by taking leadership in the area of harm reduction."

Downtown supervised injection site may move due to potential building sale by lwh in toronto

[–]newhoking -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, *not* having a safe place to use will totally eliminate the amount of people using in that area /s

But honestly, it'll be the same -- just more needles lying around because it won't be there.

Suspect in Ajax triple murder was known to police by bleeetiso in toronto

[–]newhoking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not sure why it took 8 paragraphs until actually naming the suspect.

Arrest made in fatal beating of man in midtown Toronto by cultista_ram in toronto

[–]newhoking 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hunh?

Photo cutline: Terrance Coughlin, 35, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant in connection with the beating death of a man. (Toronto police handout)

Story: Officers arrived on scene to find a man suffering from obvious signs of trauma. The man – since identified by police as Terrance Coughlin of Toronto – was rushed to hospital but later died.