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For some business owners and parents dropping their kids off at school in the Yonge and Dundas neighbourhood, it's become a daily occurrence to find used needles, human waste and vandalism in the area.
Article content A panel of city drug and shelter officials described one-stop shopping safe injection sites in hotel shelters as an “urgent need” due to the spike in hotel and other shelter overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. They told recent three consultation sessions for the city’s new Urgent Public Health Needs (safe injection) sites that COVID has caused addicts to engage in substance abuse on a greater basis — usually “alone” — and the number of overdose deaths in shelters increased to 37 last year. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing ...