Safe injection site plan is scientifically sound: health official

Despite Ottawa's opposition, strategy reduces ODs, infections, doctors agree


A report released Friday by the Montreal public health department recommends that three supervised injection sites and a mobile one be established next year in city neighbourhoods where intravenous drug use is rampant.


"We are convinced - and all the scientific studies back us up on this point - that supervised injection sites do not create new problems," Lessard told The Gazette. "On the contrary, they reduce the problem of syringes found on the streets and in the parks, and they reduce the number of overdose deaths."

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