Earlier this year, Doug Ford shut down nine supervised consumption and treatment sites. These sites provided essential, life-saving services for vulnerable people at high risk of overdose or drug poisoning.

They kept drug use off of our streets and out of our ERs.

Now, harm reduction workers and paramedics are reporting disturbing scenes in communities across the province. They are spread thin responding to overdose after overdose.

This is a crisis that could be easily prevented by following the evidence and creating spaces for harm reduction to save lives and provide other essential mental health and addictions care.

Shutting down supervised consumption and treatment sites means more public drug use, more stress on emergency rooms and healthcare workers, and more preventable deaths.

We need to re-open these sites before more lives are lost.

Tell Doug Ford our communities need these sites and resources.