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Dr. John Heintzman anticipates spending ‘much of my time’ getting a firm grasp of the region’s mental health, addictions challenges.

A London, Ont., physician says she and others are torn between continuing prescribing drugs to their patients living with addiction, or weaning them off as federal safer supply funding is set to end in March with no word of renewal.

A new development in safe drug supply programs in Canada has local health centres on edge.

The Mobile Overdose Prevention Site (MOPS) will be funded to continue operations through the winter, it was announced last week. Read more.

A mobile overdose prevention site in Winnipeg will be able to continue operating through the winter months.

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'The risks and harms that people face when using substances outdoors are multiplied when the weather gets cold,' the mobile overdose prevention site co-ordinator said.

While there have been fewer fatal overdoses this year compared to last in Thunder Bay, Ont., staff at northwestern Ontario's only safe consumption site say one death is one too many. Here are the resources available at Path 525 and what staff say about the importance of people checking their drugs for deadly substances.

Sault native has served as chief of psychiatry and medical director of Mental Health and Addictions Program at Grand River Hospital.

Sault native has served as chief of psychiatry and medical director of Mental Health and Addictions Program at Grand River Hospital.