Success for Conservatives is finding at least one study that backs their ideology.

[sanderde@mstdn.ca]

Success for Conservatives is finding at least one study that backs their ideology.

“The Ontario government has cited a Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence study that found no increase in mortality after the closure of one overdose prevention site in Red Deer, Alta.

But that study’s authors have acknowledged it was inconclusive because it covered only a six-month period. And a single study of a single site closure does not constitute an evidence base for dismantling an entire network of services across a province where opioid deaths remain catastrophically high.”

#onpoli #DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

Ontario is closing its supervised consumption sites, calling them a failure. So what counts as ‘success?’

Supervised consumption sites have real shortcomings. But the government’s case for closing them relies on a narrow definition of success and abandons the people the sites were designed to reach.

The Conversation (theconversation.com)