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‘It’s scary’: Toronto’s drug checking program ‘dismantled’ by consumption site closures

May 20, 2025

Karen McDonald, lead for Ontario’s Drug Checking Service, spoke with Toronto Today about the implications of the provincial safe consumption site closures on the critical harm reduction program.

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Related:

  • Hundreds will lose access to safe consumption when some Toronto sites close: study
  • Doug Ford to ban safe injection sites within 200 metres of schools and child-care centres
  • Drug checking in Toronto could be significantly impacted by closure of supervised consumption sites
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  • Implementing drug checking services and monitoring unregulated drug markets in Ontario
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