LeBlanc and Co.: Ontario must reduce overdose risks behind and beyond bars

While harm reduction advocates and medical professionals call upon the provincial government to reverse its recent decision to cut the number of overdose prevention sites in Ontario as people continue to die daily from preventable opioid overdoses, this crisis also persists behind bars with far too little appropriate action.
Overdoses and deaths have been a frequent occurrence in provincial jails. Fortunately, no reports have emerged of prisoners dying at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OC