“We are in a public health emergency,” harm-reduction worker Zoe Dodd said. The tent will be set up Thursday and replace a temporary site run by the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS). Ontario is dispatching its Emergency Medical Assistance Team to set up a tent in Moss Park to provide a heated and insulated space for safe injections. In the interim, they want city support to open a trailer in Moss Park and the province to declare a state of emergency. “The exemption process is the opposite of that.”The city has opened an interim safe injection site, with more planned for Toronto and across Ontario.

Source: thestar November 01, 2017 23:44 UTC