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Turning Point encouraged by federal comments on SCS and decriminalization
Recent comments from the federal government on supervised consumption services (SCS) and the decriminalization of drugs are encouraging, says the executive director of Red Deer’s Turning Point.
Last week, the feds announced that a survey would be open until October 14 asking stakeholders to provide feedback on supervised consumption.
Turning Point has operated a temporary overdose prevention site, which for all intents and purposes offers supervised consumption, since October 2018.
Impetus for the consultation, a release states, is the opioid overdose crisis, and that since 2017, SCS sites have been visited more than 2.2 million times, and reversed over 17,000 overdoses, all without a single death at a site.