Alberta to close drug consumption sites following landmark study

Instead, there was 6.2 per cent increase in the uptake of rehabilitation services between when the site’s closure was announced (June 2024) and six months after it closed its doors (September 2025). The amount of people seeking recovery in Red Deer was more than that over the same period in Lethbridge, which kept open an active drug consumption site, at 2.4 per cent.