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Derek Finkle: What the study praising Toronto safe-injection sites doesn’t tell you

On the Sunday of the Family Day long weekend, three days after a proposed class-action lawsuit against a Toronto supervised consumption site was all over the news, the Toronto Star published a feel-good harm-reduction story.

The Star article had an intriguing headline: “Here’s what happened to overdose deaths in Toronto neighbourhoods with safe consumption sites.” The story was about a study published this month in The Lancet.

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