A supervised injection center overflows in Montreal, the chagrin of the neighborhood

The Street Specter Supervised Specter Injection Center, in the Center-Sud district of Montreal, is struggling to meet demand, and the presence of customers that wanders the surroundings of headaches to neighboring merchants.

Street specter has been installed since 2017 on Ontario Street. Moreover, Coin Beaudry, but for a few months, neighboring traders have noted that the nuisances associated with it have significantly increased.

People who dealer In public. Meanwhile, people who inhale in public, people who inject themselves into public and some, unfortunately, who urine and deficit in publicnotes Christelle Perrine, owner of a neighboring grocery store.

A supervised injection center from the overwhelmed Center-South: René Saint-Louis

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She notices that Populations that were before moving tend to stay on the site.

If more users wander around the injection center supervised for some time. Therefore, it is because they have to wait longer to be able to access it.

The [nocivité] drugstore [consommée] Make people have more. For example, more difficulty wake up what they have just injectexplains the director general of the organization, Annie Aubertin.

If before an injection could last around thirty minutes, it can easily last an hour now, she says.

The state of what supervised injection center overflows montreal, they consume makes them so asleep.. If they do not stand on their paws, we cannot get them out of the room.

Meanwhile, users are forced to wait. People, when they are lacking, they can’t wait.

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Faced with this situation, street spectrum employees have no choice but to tolerate than their customers consume in front of the establishment. At least we can take a look at suchloose Ms. Aubertin.

The owner of a coffee located nearby. Gaby Kassas, notes thatThere has been a kind of degradation of public space on Ontario Street And that episodes of physical and verbal violence are more frequent.

Ms. Perrine and she are part of a collective aimed at improving safety and quality of life on their street. They held a first meeting with the team of the injection center recently.

Ms. Aubertin says he understands the concerns of the neighborhood. The situation is, according to her, impossible to master at present. To overcome the problem. the organization should be organized to open other supervised injection cubicular, in particular, which requires more funding.

With information from René Saint-Louis