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Beyond Housing: Winnipeg’s Recovery Crisis | Winnipeg News
Winnipeg’s streets changed dramatically around 2016 as meth and fentanyl surged, turning addiction into a deadly, complex crisis that housing alone can’t solve. Outdated systems, built before the fentanyl era, are ill-equipped to handle the trauma, mental illness, and deep-rooted poverty now rampant. People cycle endlessly through ERs, shelters, and police encounters—no real path to lasting recovery. While supervised consumption sites and clinics offer critical first steps, they’re just entry points. What’s missing is a unified, long-term recovery system that connects housing, healthcare…
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