Londoners can now weigh in on public supervised injection sites for the city's drug users. Getting input is also a necessary hurdle the city must clear before applying to Health Canada for permission to open a supervised injection site. Drugs use a growing problemLondon gives out 2.5 million needles a year to injection drug users, a number second only to Vancouver. A survey of injection drug users last year found 86 per cent said they'd use such services. Those infections can be caused by bacteria that enters the blood stream through injection drug use.

Source: CBC News October 26, 2017 16:06 UTC