THUNDER BAY — More cash from Ottawa will continue to support northern Ontario's only safer supply drug program.
In addition to the existing $1.5 million in funding for the pilot program, NorWest Community Health Centres will receive an additional $520,000 from Health Canada to continue its work, the federal government announced this week.
The program is to provide assessment, along with "monitoring and prescriptions for daily-dispensed, take-home oral hydromorphone to eligible clients. Clients will have access to a range of health and psycho-social supports and wraparound services that address the social determinants of health," according to the announcement from Health Canada.
Thunder Bay is the only location for all of northern Ontario to have a safe supply program, with the next closest safe supply program located in Sudbury.
There are various treatment centres located across Northwestern Ontario, including in Kenora, Fort Frances, Muskrat Dam and one on the east side in Moosonee.
NorWest Community Health Centres has been operating the program now for a year, as of Oct. 25.
Details on the clinic are available here.
