Cheque day: When the opioid crisis crashes down on Ottawa's ByWard Market

“They turn greyish blue and life slowly drains out of them. All of a sudden, you see them just pretty much go to sleep. Their arms tighten up. Maybe their legs are shaking a bit. Their breathing could stop. It is scary.”
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One week last winter changed everything.
On the last day of February, a woman in her mid-40s was found dead of a drug overdose in her bed at Shepherds of Good Hope, a homeless shelter at the corner of Murray Street and King Edward Avenue.
Three days later, a w