Brunet Park pop-up injection site to close

Ottawa’s pop-up injection site in Lowertown’s Raphael Brunet Park is closing.
“It is with heavy hearts that Overdose Prevention Ottawa share that we are closing the service we have provided on the patch of grass located at 307 St. Patrick Street since August 25, 2017,” the organization said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
In the nearly 11 weeks since it opened, Overdose Prevention Ottawa says it received 3,445 visits, reversed five overdoses with the use of nal