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The first sanctioned supervised consumption site in North America is in Vancouver. It’s called Insite and it opened in September 2003. Staff there have reversed about 12,000 overdoses, and referred people to treatment and health care services over 70,000 times, AT THIS ONE SITE ALONE. My own life was saved there. Over 20+ years, the evidence has piled up: supervised consumption services are one of the most effective tools we have to prevent harms, save lives, and guide people toward treatment. With the facts clear and the evidence indisputable, these services have rolled out across the country, saving lives from coast to coast. Today, public officials and media from all over the world come to Vancouver to visit Insite, to learn about this incredible place that builds connections and saves lives, both literally and figuratively. So it was shocking to hear @PierrePoilievre call them “drug dens” today. It was only weeks ago that he was promising to provide yoga at beautiful rehab centres to bring our loved ones home drug-free. Today he dropped the act, ditched the compassionate language entirely, and showed he really doesn’t care about our loved ones at all, promising to defund, close or prevent these services from operating … one of the very few tools we have against the toxic drug supply. GETTING RID OF SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES WILL NOT MAGICALLY SOLVE THE DRUG CRISIS OR ELIMINATE DRUG USE FROM CANADIAN COMMUNITIES. What kind of campaign promise is THIS?? What Pierre is suggesting is the same problematic path Alberta chose to follow, and we can all see what’s happening over there: unprecedented rates or injuries & deaths, and zero reduction in drug consumption or community chaos. People definitely won't recover if they are dead! #HarmReduction #supervisedconsumptionsites #toxicdrugcrisis