Action Alert: Withdraw your plan to close supervised consumption sites, premier!

Premier Ford’s plan to gut and prohibit harm reduction programming in Ontario – including the closure of 10 supervised consumption sites (SCS) – is a triumph of ideology over health care. People will die preventable deaths as a result of the premier’s plan to withdraw these critical health-care services.

Join us! Call on the premier to withdraw his plan to close SCSs and slash harm reduction services in Ontario.

The scale of Ontario’s toxic drug crisis is staggering. Across Ontario, an average of 10 people per day are dying from tainted drugs. In 2023 alone, over 3,800 people across Ontario died from the unregulated drug supply. Harm reduction programs such as SCS and safer supply save lives and open the door to treatment and recovery.

RNAO welcomes the government’s investment in 19 Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) hubs. The investment fails to recognize, however, the scale of Ontario’s toxic drug crisis. The premier’s ideological response to this crisis means, as well, that important evidence-based health care responses - such as harm reduction services and even needle exchange programs – will be excluded from HART hubs.

Harm reduction is health care and nurses are demanding that the premier withdraw his plan to withdraw health care from people in need. Join us! Call on the premier to withdraw his plan to close SCSs and slash harm reduction services in Ontario.