Save The Spot!
Sudbury Ontario's
Supervised Consumption Site
Response to ON Provincial SCS Potential Closures
August 22, 2024
- Addictions and Mental Health Ontario
Alliance for Healthier Communities
Canadian Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH)
https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/camh-statement-supervised-consumption-sites-082024
Canadian Mental Health Association (Ontario)
Canadian Public Health Association
CATIE
https://www.catie.ca/catie-calls-for-a-hold-on-closing-ontario-supervised-consumption-sites
HIV Legal Network
ONA & CUPE
https://cupe.on.ca/joint-statement-ford-must-base-safe-injection-site-policy-on-the-evidence/
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
- https://rnao.ca/news/media-releases/scs-closures-a-death-sentence-that-will-lead-to-unsafe-communities-and-higher
- https://rnao.ca/policy/action-alerts/withdraw-your-plan-to-close-supervised-consumption-sites-premier
MOH CTS Service Review – Unity Health
WHY IT MATTERS?
Since 2018 there has been a 346 per cent increase in opioid overdose deaths in Sudbury compared to 60 per cent in Ontario. 112 Sudbury and Manitoulin residents died from an opioid-related overdose in 2022, an average of 9 people a month, and we have already had 78 fatalities this year.
In the middle of a drug poisoning epidemic The Spot has been essential for Sudbury, reducing overdose deaths, reducing the transmission of infectious diseases, reducing risk and connecting individuals with essential social and healthcare services. In 2023 alone, The Spot had almost 1,000 visits and reversed all 15 overdoses that happened on site, saving lives and drug checking services to prevent the risk of overdose.
Each overdose is a person, and when we reverse an overdose that is a person who is still alive.
If this funding application is approved, we can keep our doors open, move to a more central location, stay open longer and ultimately help more people.
CONNECT:
E-Mail: scs@reseauaccessnetwork.com
