Ontario has announced it will end funding for supervised consumption services (SCS) in June—meaning more closures are imminent. This timely webinar shares preliminary findings from studies examining what SCS closures are already doing on the ground. Researchers from The Margins Lab (MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Unity Health Toronto), alongside CRISM Ontario Node partners, explore the impacts on service delivery, frontline staff, and people who rely on these services—and what this means for policy, care, and access moving forward.
Speakers: Farihah Ali (CRISM-ON, CAMH), Uzma Ahmed (MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions), Zoë Dodd (MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions), and Gillian Kolla (Memorial University)
Related resources:
2026. Kolla, G and Gomes, T. What the evidence says about defunding Ontario's remaining supervised consumption sites. (Evidence Review / Ontario)
2025. Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) Research Team. Toronto Public Health’s Supervised Consumption Site Closure: A Pre- and Post-Closure Evaluation. Ontario Node, CRISM, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR), Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). (Report / Toronto)
2025. Wellington-Guelph Drug Strategy. Consumption and Treatment Services Closure Report. (Report / Ontario - Guelph)
2024. Bayoumi, A.; Wu, M.; Pogacar, F., Wang, T., and Gomes, T. Estimating the effects of closing supervised consumption sites in Toronto. Use of Services. (Report / Ontario)
2026. Ontario's Drug Checking Community. Ontario's Drug Checking Community and Supervised Consumption Site: Generating critical evidence on Ontario's unregulated drug supply. (Report / Ontario)
See Supervised Consumption Services Evidence and Resource Hub for more information about SCS!
