No safe injection site, homeless shelters force those in need in Dryden, Ont., to help each other
CBC
In Ontario's smallest city, Dryden, drug-related overdoses and deaths are rising.
There are also heightened calls for evidence-based solutions, like creating safe consumption sites, to help vulnerable people in the city of 8,000, located 350 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.
But when someone like Shauna Pinkerton, who has lived with addiction for decades, brings that conversation to the people charged with making those decisions, she runs into the same sort of answer.
"They're like, 'Here's a five-year community wellness plan that we've put together, so in the next five years, you guys should be able to see some progress,'" Pinkerton said.
"We don't have five years."
The gulf between those who say they need action and help now and those charged with making it happen is ever present in Dryden, and it's generating intense frustration for people who are watching their friends die.
Pinkerton pulls a paper bag out of her garage.
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