I felt walking through the door [at the safe consumption site] gave me dignity again." Stacey Bourque, executive director of outreach agency ARCHES, demonstrates the emergency exhaust system in the first Health Canada-approved safe inhalation site. Restocking naloxoneA small city like Lethbridge may not be top of mind when it comes to building an innovative safe consumption site. Paramedic Kyle Vreekin holds a dose of naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdose. "I can't sit around and ignore the fact that we've got these issues of visible drug use and drug debris."

Source: CBC News March 18, 2018 12:24 UTC