Ontario Cuts Number Of Approved Overdose Prevention Sites

By Colin Perkel, Canadian Press

Six previously licensed sites weren't approved under the province's new model.

A Toronto man checks out a Naloxone kit he was given at a pop up safe-injection site. Richard Lautens via Getty Images

Fifteen overdose-prevention sites across Ontario have been approved for operation under a new model, the provincial government announced Friday in a decision critics called a disaster because six previously licenced sites weren't given the green light.

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