City meets with Alberta Health Services to talk supervised consumption
The mayor of Red Deer and representatives with Alberta Health Services recently met to discuss supervised consumption services (SCS) and other health issues affecting central Albertans.
On Monday, city council approved two sites for mobile supervised consumption service for if and when a provider is granted a federal exemption.
The meeting between Mayor Tara Veer and AHS, as well as the vote by council, comes after council also changed its Land Use Bylaw last December to allow for a permanent site at the Red Deer Regional Hospital grounds.
Veer expressed The City’s and council’s desire for clarity from the Province around their planning for SCS, the community drug and alcohol strategy, needle debris clean-up, addictions treatment, and the healthcare expansion in Red Deer.