The COVID-19 pandemic has put almost everything on hold in Winnipeg, but there’s one local activity that continues unabated: drug abuse.
Eddie Hendrickson, CEO of volunteer community organization Sharp Surgeons, told 680 CJOB his group has picked up between 250-300,000 discarded needles on local streets over a year in operation, and things haven’t slowed down despite the coronavirus crisis. “We’ve been out during the whole COVID crisis.
Every day we go out and we make sure the needles are picked up on the streets of Winnipeg,” said Hendrickson. “We’re finding bags on the sides of the street, on the sides of the bins with hundreds of needles, maybe even a thousand needles in a bag at a time.” Hendrickson said he believes dealers are