03-06-2017 16:26 via edmontonjournal.com

Safe injection site approvals can't come quickly enough, province says

After promising new action to fight the opioid crisis in Alberta, the provincial government is anxious to move ahead with safe injection sites, but is still waiting on the OK from the federal government.
“To be frank, I would have liked to have gotten the approvals for those yesterday,” associate health minister Brandy Payne said Friday.
“I don’t believe those approvals can come quickly enough and our office is in continual contact with Health Canada, reminding them of th
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