{"id":4052,"date":"2024-07-08T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2024-07-08T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:01:58","slug":"consultations-start-for-winnipegs-first-supervised-consumption-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/consultations-start-for-winnipegs-first-supervised-consumption-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultations Start for Winnipeg\u2019s First Supervised Consumption Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; The Manitoba government is advancing its initiative to establish the province\u2019s first supervised drug consumption site.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Wab Kinew announced that the government will collaborate with the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, which currently operates an addiction clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Kinew stated that the group will be consulting on potential locations over the coming months to identify a site that minimizes the impact on the surrounding area. The planned facility will also provide medical supervision and treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP government allocated $2.5 million for the establishment of this facility in its spring budget, targeting an opening in central Winnipeg by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Manitoba is the only province west of New Brunswick without a supervised consumption site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; The Manitoba government is advancing its initiative to establish the province\u2019s first supervised drug&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":4053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371,499],"tags":[1152,1154,1148,1157,1158,1153,1150,1159,471,1155,1151,1149,1156,1147,438],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-2-5-million-funding","tag-1154","tag-aboriginal-health-and-wellness-centre","tag-addiction-clinic","tag-canadian-provinces","tag-central-winnipeg","tag-drug-addiction","tag-harm-reduction","tag-manitoba","tag-medical-supervision","tag-ndp-government","tag-supervised-consumption-site","tag-treatment-options","tag-wab-kinew","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}