From brianlilley: Government-funded drug site offers chocolate for dirty needles
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On Monday, the South Riverdale Community Health Clinic , quietly took down a poster from their front door offering chocolate in exchange for needles and issued an apology.“Got Sharps? Want Chocolate?” read the poster. “For every full sharps container you return to COUNTERfit, we’ll give you a chocolate bar.”
COUNTERfit is a harm reduction program for women run by the SRCHC. The centre also runs a safe-injection site and a so-called safe-supply program which hands out opioids along with a host of other programs. Handing out chocolate bars and encouraging kids to pick up dirty needles appears to have been a short-lived program.Jason Altenberg, CEO of SRCHC, said the poster never should have gone up. He said that the harm-reduction team has long encouraged clients to bring back used needles, but that this went too far.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
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