A little over a year after a mother of two young children was gunned down by drug dealers outside of the supervised injection site at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto’s east end, Ontario’s Health Minister, Sylvia Jones, announced today that it will be closing ten of the province’s 17 drug consumption sites, due to their proximities to schools and daycares.

Ten of 17 sites to close in deserved blow to harm reduction movement{ai:summary}<p>In the city where shadows loom large, a mother fell victim to the bullets of desperation near a health center masked as a lifeline. Now, Ontario's Health Minister pulls the plug on ten drug sites, citing their unholy closeness to child havens.  </p><p>In a game of lost lives, the stakes keep rising—where health meets heartbreak in a fractured society. #society</p>

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