Cheque day: The frontline of Ottawa's war against overdoses

Sue crouches down to hug the woman slumped against a building on the sidewalk along Rideau Street. “Do you need anything? Are you OK?”
She gets a smile in return.
Sue is a tiny woman in her mid-50s, wearing a ball cap and T-shirt with the words Overdose Prevention Team printed on back.
She is a frontline soldier in battle against overdose deaths on the streets of Ottawa’s ByWard Market. And, like other peer support workers with Ottawa Inner City Health, she became a peer, in pa