Alberta's review of supervised consumption sites was flawed and biased, stoking unchecked claims about the links between the service and crime rates, according to the author of a new peer-reviewed article. The article, published this week in Harm Reduction Journal, takes aim at the committee's evaluation of crime statistics around supervised consumption sites (SCS). When the province's report was released in March 2020, associate minister Jason Luan said it detailed "a system of chaos," around supervised consumption sites. No Canadian or international peer-reviewed study has found supervised consumption sites result in an increase in crime, he added. CBC News Video 3:23 Three weeks after Alberta announced it would stop funding a safe injection site in Lethbridge, an unsanctioned, supervised consumption site was set up in a tent.

Source: CBC News January 09, 2021 00:45 UTC