By rdnewsNOW staff

“wake-up call”

WATCH: Province releases report on supervised consumption services in Alberta

Mar 5, 2020 | 10:45 AM

CALGARY – A report says the social impacts of supervised drug consumption sites in Alberta include increased needle debris and a growing risk to public safety in surrounding neighbourhoods.

Associate health minister Jason Luan calls the report a “wake-up call” and says the government will use it to make decisions about the sites on a city-by-city basis.

Luan also says the eight-member review panel heard allegations of “financial irregularities” at Arches, the non-profit agency overseeing the safe consumption site in Lethbridge.

He says auditors went to Arches this week to collect documentation and he’ll have more to say in the coming weeks.

There are currently seven sites in Alberta in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge with proposals for one each in Red Deer and Medicine Hat and another one in Calgary.

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The government formed the panel last summer to look at how the sites impact crime rates, social order, property values and businesses.

(With file from The Canadian Press)