No more clean drug paraphernalia to be handed out in Edmonton LRT stations after city rule change
A representative for the transit union agrees that the current program is not working.
Bradshaw doesn’t blame the city and says administration has done what it can to deal with the drug use.Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi called the rule change a necessary step because the program was seeing more negatives than positives.Story continues below advertisement Sohi called for more supervised consumption sites and for the introduction of a safe supply, where people who use drugs would be provided “pharmaceutical alternatives” to use.Ward Nakota Isga councillor Andrew Knack said he thinks handing out clean supplies is humane.
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