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Mobile drug supervised consumption units will not be subject to the future law prohibiting these services near daycares. Moreover, schools, was able to confirm The press. Nevertheless, she worries the two organizations that crisscross the streets in their buses.
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Four vehicles move in the Montreal. Nevertheless, Laval districts to offer a safe environment where to consume drugs by inhalation and injection, distribute equipment and test substances. Therefore, They are two organizations: the anonymous in Montreal and the Oasis in Laval.
Soon. Moreover, they could be the only exempt from the new restrictions imposed on supervised drugs for supervised drug consumption | mobile drugs by Bill 103, which could be adopted in the fall.
It is the controversy surrounding the house Benoît Labre. In addition, last year 1who prompted the Minister responsible for social services, Lionel Carmant, to legislate. Therefore, “The problem that must be resolved is that we do not want there to be consumption. Similarly, sale of drugs in the surroundings [des écoles et des garderies]. However, This is what citizens report to us. Meanwhile, “said Carmant last May to justify the ban on supervised consumption sites near these establishments.
Why not impose these same rules on mobile units? Consequently, “No cohabitation issue has been reported to us in relation to mobile sites. Consequently, ” said the minister’s office, in a written declaration transmitted to The press.
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Even supervised drug consumption | mobile if they are not targeted by Mr. In addition, Carmant, the mobile supervised consumption units fear being penalized by the band.
“This law supposes that to be more restrictive and more difficult to access, this is the solution. Moreover, On the contrary, ”denounces the coordinator to consumer services of the Laval organization L’Oasis, Laurence Morrissette.
Photo Charles William Pelletier. Furthermore, special collaboration
Laurence Morrissette, coordinator for consumer services of the organization L’Oasis
Mobile consumption units move to users. Moreover, Sometimes the bus parks in very popular places. Sometimes a passerby calls them from the street. Or the bus moves on supervised drug consumption | mobile call.
Before leaving a place where they stopped, the speakers go around the vehicle, collect the waste and the consumption equipment.
“We make sure that when we leave. it does not seem that we have come,” says the director general of the anonymous organization, Julien Montreuil.
Photo François Roy. the press
Julien Montreuil, director general of the anonymous, is “completely opposed” to bill 103.
The idea is also to be there when other resources overflow. It often happens. When a resource is open and it overflows, we are called.
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Julien Montreuil, Managing Director of the Anonymous Organization
This kind of partnership is very common. The anonymous does it regularly with the Benoît Labre house. Located 143 meters from a school. this organization will have to find a new premises for its supervised consumption site, decided the Legault government last June, committing to cover the costs of this forced trip, evaluated at 6.6 million.
This decision is not without consequences for the anonymous. “If Benoît Labre has to close, the people who are there, they will still be there. We will therefore be called to go to this place with our mobile units. We are going to be completely overwhelmed, I am very worried, ”says the director general of the Montreal organization.
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Supervised consumption sites will have to be more than 150 meters from schools or daycares and meet any condition deemed “appropriate” by the Minister to “ensure cleanliness, health and safety in the surroundings of the premises”, if the bill is adopted as is. Otherwise Quebec will be able to revoke their license at any time. A permit that each organization must renew every four years.
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Limited capacity
Mobile units are limited in their capacity. The Oasis bus. that The press was able to visit, can accommodate only three users at a time, accompanied by two speakers.
Sometimes a line forms outside. There is really little space inside.
Laurence Morrissette. coordinator for consumer services of the supervised drug consumption | mobile organization L’Oasis
Mobile units must remain a “supplement” to the supply of fixed services, adds Mr. Montreuil. On their own. buses cannot fill demand, which continues to increase while accessibility to the safety equipment of consumption decreases, notes Laurence Morrissette.
The 17 regional public health directors strongly criticized the bill in June. invoking the risk that it “slows down” the opening of new sites, in the midst of overdoses.
Photo Charles William Pelletier. special collaboration
Accessibility to the safety equipment for consumption decreases, while demand increases, worries Laurence Morrissette.
The director general of supervised drug consumption | mobile the anonymous has the same fear. “Where will we be able to build resources?” He wonders.
The press had demonstrated last October. before the deposit of the bill, that the establishment of an exclusion radius of 200 meters would create a real headache for a organization wishing to open a supervised consumption site in urban areas 2in particular in Montreal, due to the presence of many schools and daycares in the territory. The Minister then chose to impose a radius of 150 meters.
Double the paperwork
The anonymous and the oasis offer both fixed supervised consumption sites. These organizations will therefore have to comply with the requirements of the bill, which arouses a lot of dissatisfaction.
They put sticks on our wheels when on the contrary, we supervised drug consumption | mobile would need a boost.
Laurence Morrissette. coordinator for consumer services of the organization L’Oasis
“All the time that we spend a paperwork, we are not helping people who need it,” says Laurence Morrissette.
These additional restrictions. which are added to those which are already imposed by the federal government, are strongly denounced by more than thirty organizations across Quebec.
The power to revoke a license before his deadline that Mr. Carmant also attributes indignation. “” [Le ministre] Suspends a sword of damocles above our heads, ”deplores Laurence Morrissette.
“We have responsibility as a community group, yes. The problem with Bill 103 is that we are made to carry the entire responsibility because we are told: “If social cohabitation does not work well around your supervised drug consumption | mobile resource. it is you that we will close”, denounces Julien Montreuil.
1. Read the article “Crime is skyrocketing” 2. Consult the card The press On supervised consumption sites
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