Vancouver isn’t renewing the lease for a downtown overdose prevention site, despite the neighbourhood’s high rate of toxic drug deaths.

Written by Michelle Gamage, The Tyee’s health reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.



https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/27/Vancouver-Thomus-Donaghy-Overdose-Prevention-Site/

Vancouver isn’t renewing the lease for a downtown overdose prevention site, despite the neighbourhood’s high rate of toxic drug deaths. Written by Michelle Gamage, The Tyee’s health reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/27/Vancouver-Thomus-Donaghy-Overdose-Prevention-Site/

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