Inside the only supervised injection site in Thunder Bay, Ont., nurse practitioner Josh Fraser has reversed so many opioid overdoses that he says the lives saved are “too many to count.”
“It’s not about trying to stop it,” Fraser said of drug use in the northwestern Ontario city. “I think it’s about providing a safe place and meeting people where they’re at.”
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Dr. Scott MacDonald, who runs the clinic, says the program has shown to “improve care, reduce societal costs, reduce mortality, and reduce crime.”
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