Alberta funds 8,500 addiction treatment spaces while seeing record drug deaths
Last week, the Alberta government announced that since being elected, they’ve funded over 8,000 annual treatment spaces in the province.
In September 2019, the province promised that they would fund 4,000 such spaces by 2023. According to last week’s announcement, they have already met that goal:
“In 2019, Alberta’s government committed to funding 4,000 annual treatment spaces. That commitment has been exceeded two years ahead of schedule.”
The number of publicly funded treatment spaces totals 8,565 and will be in various communities throughout Alberta.
Read more in today’s story on Kim Siever News.
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