Ottawa's health unit rushes to open its own supervised injection site

With opioid overdoses rising, Ottawa’s public health unit wants to open its own supervised drug-injection site, health officer Dr. Isra Levy told the board of health Tuesday.
“It is my intent to begin to offer these services as soon as we can responsibly do so, and we are aiming to achieve that within the next two weeks,” he wrote in a mid-day memo. Levy said he believes he has the authority to do it without direct approval from the board, but he’ll ask for a vote on his