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Winnipeg Free Press: Focused on opening safe consumption site: addictions minister
August 30, 2024 —
When the site is running, the work must continue, said Dr. Marcia Anderson, the vice-dean of Indigenous health, social justice and anti-racism at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.
“One supervised consumption site, commitment to ongoing funding for (the mobile overdose prevention site) at Sunshine House, those are very important steps, but they are only the first steps. They are only the start,” she said, noting a safer supply drug program in the city must be a priority.
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