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Supervised consumption services (SCS) in Alberta have reported a 100 per cent success rate when reversing opioid overdoses, amounting to more than 4,300 saves since November 2017, says a recent report.

Outside the locations, about two people die every day from opioid overdoses in the province, according to the August report by the Alberta Community Council on HIV (ACCH).

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“Even with the challenges that SCS do create in communities, those challenges are outweighed by the benefits,” said executive director Celeste Hayward. “(Sites) save lives.”

Together there were more than 300,000 visits to sites in Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge and Grande Prairie between January 2018 and March this year. Lethbridge has seen the most visits, totalling more than 188,100 compared to around 46,700 in Edmonton and 68,400 in Calgary. Grande Prairie saw just shy of 300 visits in the month of March, when data first became available. In Red Deer, the overdose prevention site (OPS) that opened in October 2018 has had nearly 29,000 visits.