Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s safe consumption site provides a sizeable social and economic return on investment

Linzi Williamson, Anne Miller, Maryellen Gibson, Maggie Coupland, Evan Poncelet, Kayla DeMong, James Dixon, Barbara Fornssler · 2026

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Linzi Williamson and her team work out the pay-back to folk at large of a safe-use site in Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. Their 2026 study sets a worth on the site. It sits amid hot fights, funds turned down, and shut-downs.

Ends came from talks with twenty-six folk who took part and from files kept by the site. Groups weighed took in users of the site and the folk they love. They took in the wide town, firms, and state kits such as sick bays and the law arm. Cash stand-ins set worth on gains for folk, cash life, and the wild world, with the most low safe grades and bad ends too. The check found each coin put in gave back a grade of four coins and forty-four cents in worth to folk. The team aims to show town gain past tales.

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CREATORLinzi Williamson, Anne Miller, Maryellen Gibson, Maggie Coupland, Evan Poncelet, Kayla DeMong, James Dixon, Barbara Fornssler
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE78 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13616639

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