Two communities have been waiting more than 18 months for province to approve funding to provide supervised drug consumption and wraparound services
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
The region's efforts to get a supervised consumption site began in January of 2018 and its application for a provincially funded consumption and treatment site has been with the Ministry of Health since Oct. 7, 2021 — over a year and a half. There were 74 toxic opioid deaths that year. When The Trillium relayed that exchange to Eisener, the Barrie public health nurse, her reaction was, "Wow."
In Sudbury, the opioid crisis also worsened during the pandemic, said Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, the medical officer of health for Public Health Sudbury & Districts. The third city with a pending application for a provincially funded consumption and treatment services site is Windsor, which submitted its application to the province in July 2022. According to Eisener and Sutcliffe, the ministry has not required additional information from their communities during the wait. They have been simply waiting.
Eisener said that, once the Barrie site is open, she expects it to help reduce the burden on local hospitals, which get frequent emergency visits from people who have overdosed, and to help people who use drugs connect with the health and social supports they need.
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