Families share their grief to combat stigma at annual overdose awareness day
“We need to demand safe supply for everyone,” event organizer Gail Parry says
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Paramedic “staffing crisis” is parking ambulances – and putting Peterborough residents at risk, union says
“[We are] concerned that the community is at risk of calling 911 and not having an ambulance arrive on time,” CUPE 4911 stated in a press release last week.
Peterborough competing with communities provincewide for funding to ease doctor shortage
Two local groups have made proposals for how to improve primary care in Peterborough. But they’re competing for funding with other Ontario communities — and each other.
Coalition calls on province to fund new community health centre
Centre would ease the city’s “primary care crisis” by serving up to 6,000 marginalized patients, proponents say
“Safer supply… is what’s giving us hope”: Peterborough safer supply pilot program to continue
Peterborough’s 360 Degree Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic has applied for renewed Health Canada funding to expand its safer supply program, but it will keep offering the service to current participants even if the additional funding doesn’t come through, program manager says.
Recent seizure put drug users at greater risk, harm reduction advocates say
Peterborough Police received congratulations for their recent drug bust. But the sudden removal of drugs from a community can do more harm than good, according to local advocates.
New revelations about safe injection site backstory
Civil service approved CTS application in June 2021, emails suggest
Health unit expands access to STI testing as syphilis cases rise in Ontario
Restricting STI testing was a “frustrating consequence” of the pandemic, said Peterborough’s medical officer of health Dr. Thomas Piggott
Peterborough’s Board of Health joins calls for drug decriminalization and more safe supply
Board wants province to boost action on drug poisoning crisis and push Ottawa to drop criminal penalties for possession
