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Workshop on how to start a pop-up Overdose Prevention Site at #HR17
@ZoeDodd @gilliankolla @TorontoOPS @StreetHealthOPS

They ran an illegal site for 18 months, with 100+ volunteers saving hundreds & hundreds of lives
Discussion among the crowd about fenantyl coming into local drug supplies as access to prescription pills decreases

This is what we’re now seeing in Halifax

“Don’t wait until fentanyl comes and is killing everyone; start now so you’re ready”
Moss Park OPS tent came out of heartbreak of overdose deaths & frustrations with lack of governmental response

“We went drinking & decided we needed a tent”

251 overdoses reversed in first 11 months

& they learned as they went
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