A new professionally run drug-inhalation facility opened in December near city hall, and critics of the NANDU site argued it was unnecessary to have two sites so close together
A controversial peer-supervised consumption site for illicit drugs in Nanaimo is packing up and moving out of its Nicol Street site.
Livingston is not ruling out setting up another overdose-prevention site if a request for proposals for that kind of facility is issued. Residents close to NANDU on 264 Nicol St. argued it was not necessary to have two consumption sites only about six blocks apart. Livingston said NANDU has not offered supervised consumption for about a week, but when it was open, it dealt with about 200 people a day. “We just encourage people to go to the other place [now].”
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