Wet shelter's controlled drinking could save lives: homeless advocates

Robert Vaughn says it’s a miracle he survived on the streets of Montreal for so many years.
By the time he landed in rehab, in 2015, his drinking had nearly killed him a handful of times. It wasn’t unusual for Vaughn’s friends to see him carted off in an ambulance without any guarantee he’d ever return.
At Vaughn’s lowest point, he woke up in a hospital bed where a doctor informed him his heart had stopped beating the night before.
“It’s hard to explain