Advocacy groups and academics are critical of how the provincial government has handled the rollout of Niagara’s Homeless and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hub.

Emily Spanton, an addictions counsellor and co-chair of Niagara Advocates with Lived and Living Experience (NALE), said she is skeptical Niagara’s HART Hub will ever open.

“If they were serious … they would have given some clarity on what the realistic opening date is,” she said.

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Drop-in centres are seeing a “staggering” increase in overdoses, an indication that more people

“We’re hearing (Hubs) that were supposed to open April 1, will now be open in the fall or winter and I’m still not sure that’s happening.”

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