Re: Plans inch ahead for city's first safe drug-use site, June 15

I just saw a news article regarding the safe injection site opening at the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre and had to write this.

My daughter has an addiction to fentanyl and has been in recovery for six months. We were a normal family, strict with our kids, told them not to do drugs. This wasn't going to happen to us. Until it did.

No matter what we tried, help was hard to come by. Her first wait for rehab was almost six months and it took almost 1.5 years of addiction before my daughter was ready to participate in her treatment and she was admitted to a facility that helped save her life. This was after numerous hospital trips, overdoses and frustration trying to find resources as well as 24-hour care to make sure she didn't access the drug her body craved.

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