He's worried about the impending closure of the city's only brick-and-mortar supervised drug consumption site, run by the non-profit group ARCHES. She says there is a real risk that more people will die of drug overdoses because of the closure of a drug consumption site in Lethbridge, Alta. Pijl notes that not all antisocial behaviours were associated with the supervised consumption site. ARCHES opened Feb. 28, 2018, and quickly became the busiest supervised drug consumption site in Canada. "I don't think we ever wanted the supervised consumption site," he said.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2020 11:00 UTC