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Each and Every, a group of businesses working to solve the opioid crisis, penned the letter alongside the Beltline Business Improvement Area, the Beltline Neighbourhood Association and the Crescent Heights Neighbourhood Association. Euan Thomson, executive director of Each and Every, said communities need to pull togetherSign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Euan Thomson, co-Founder of Each and Every, a group of Calgary businesses and community associations calling for safer drug supply and harm reduction to curtail the current opioid crisis.Pointing to a number of studies included in his letter, Thomson said safe consumption and drug-checking services are proven to help keep people who use drugs safe while reducing public drug use and not impacting crime in the surrounding community.
“They want to see solutions and we know what the solutions are right now, we’re just not putting them into action,” said Thomson. “Alberta, for whatever reason, has decided, even though it’s got the second-highest poisoning rate in the country, that it doesn’t want to start regulating the drug supply to any degree. It just wants to continue with this abstinence model.
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