Angie Staines, Alyssa Miller and Dave McLennan are part of a harm reduction outreach team that distributes safe drug supplies and offers help to the city's homeless.

The supervised consumption site at Boyle Street Community Services in downtown Edmonton is being permanently shut down.

Alberta Health Services has come out with a warning for those who use illegal drugs after the number of calls for opioid-related emergencies more than doubled in Edmonton last month over the same month last year.