5 overdoses, none fatal, at SafePoint in 2 months before site closed: Health unit
There were five overdoses at SafePoint, Windsor’s consumption and treatment site, in its final two months of operation.
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There were five overdoses at SafePoint, Windsor’s consumption and treatment site, in its final two months of operation.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is cautiously optimistic there may be renewed life for the city's sole consumption treatment and services site.
In its first six months of operation, SafePoint — Windsor's first and only drug consumption and treatment site — has called emergency services twice, according to the health unit.
Despite five years having passed since the legalization of recreational pot in Canada, Kate Grimmell — a budtender at Greentown Cannabis in LaSalle — remembers her favourite customer as an example of the stigma that continues to surround cannabis.
August was the busiest month so far for the Safe Point consumption and treatment site in with 130 people seeking service.