Ottawa Inner City Health CEO Rob Boyd joins CFRA’s Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron on October 1, 2024.
What it’s like to work at Ottawa’s busiest safe consumption site
The Trailer, open 24 hours a day, is the frontline of Ottawa’s opioid epidemic. The staff are tired, traumatized, unsung heroes.
Lot of extra pressure on the downtown’ — Ottawa Inner City Health on the impacts of Ontario’s safe consumption site changes.
Rob Boyd, CEO of Ottawa Inner City Health, weighs in on the changes coming to Ontario safe consumption sites, which will close one facility in Ottawa and put strain on other resources in response.
Overdose surge in ByWard Market prompts new paramedic strategy.
Ottawa Inner City Health, a charity, has been helping train Ottawa paramedics through a program led by individuals who have experienced homelessness or substance use. Paramedics are taught to take trauma-informed approaches to interacting with unhoused populations, says Rob Boyd, the organization’s CEO.
Byward Block Leaders helping their community
Here to tell us more about it are Rob Boyd, The CEO Of Ottawa Inner City Health and Sylvie Payant, a ByWard Market Block Leader.
Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 20th, 2024.
Ottawa Inner City Health has launched a program that is designed to rebuild a sense of community among the ByWard Market’s drug users. We dig deeper with CEO Rob Boyd.
Program employs drug users to address Market social disorder
Ottawa Inner City Health has launched a program designed to rebuild a sense of community among ByWard Market drug users — and to address the social disorder that now troubles the neighbourhood.
Decriminalization, more funding key to saving lives, say drug reform advocates
Until the federal government changes current drug policies, advocates say decriminalization — also a key goal — is not enough to reduce overdose deaths across the country.
Health advocates in Ottawa watching B.C. drug decriminalization closely
British Columbia is taking a new approach to address the opioid crisis by decriminalizing small amounts of certain illicit drugs for personal use.
Safe supply key to city’s overdose pandemic: Ottawa Inner City Health
Current programs in place to combat overdose deaths in Ottawa don't stand up to the reality of the drugs currently on the streets, according to Ottawa Inner City Health.
Longtime advocate for Ottawa’s homeless retiring amid opioid crisis
When Wendy Muckle co-founded Ottawa Inner City Health 21 years ago, she never imagined how fentanyl would devastate the city.
The Experiment Aiming To Keep Drug Users Alive By Helping Them Get High More Safely
Inside an addiction treatment center in Ottawa, Canada, half a dozen people sit in little booths.