The Alberta government is to spend up to $30 million to build a long-term drug addiction treatment facility on the Tsuut'ina First Nation west of Calgary.
The aim is to have construction begin next year on the 75-bed facility that is expected to treat about 300 patients annually.
Other centres include ones in Red Deer, Lethbridge, Calgary, Grande Prairie and Enoch First Nation near Edmonton.Smith says the treatment would be free to all Albertans and the Tsuut'ina centre is to offer holistic treatment to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from around the area. "Building this recovery community in partnership with Tsuut'ina is another essential step toward ending the addiction crisis here in Alberta."
The Opposition NDP said in a statement that Smith is failing and must develop an emergency plan to stop drug overdose deaths among Indigenous people.
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