When I’m around my people, I feel safe’: City aims to combat Indigenous overdoses amid opioid crisis – CBC
Toronto Public Health strategy calls for culturally safe care, Indigenous-led consumption sites
Feb 20, 2019
Catching up in the bustling lobby of an east-end Toronto clinic and supervised consumption site, Les Harper and Lawrence Boyer have lots to talk about — and lots in common.
Both men understand the complicated nature of drug use, from the pleasures to the potentially-deadly pains. Both have also lost loved ones to overdoses — roughly 30 friends for Boyer, and three brothers, one sister, and various cousins, aunts, and uncles for Harper.
And, like so many of those affected by addiction, both men are Indigenous.
But while Boyer is a client and two-time overdose survivor, Harper is on the other side.
