After 21 years of leading Ottawa Inner City Health, Wendy Muckle is retiring as executive director.
"I am feeling good, I think it is time for a change," Muckle tells CTV News Ottawa. "I always worried about staying too long. When you are the co-founder of an organization, it is hard to really start to think about how that organization is going to go on without you. I feel like the organization is in a good place and it is a good time to make that change."
"The community really came together, we truly transformed the face of that disease, we haven’t had anyone die of AIDS in our community for a very long time. That was the beginning of us figuring out that us as a community we could tackle these complicated together and we could make changes." "The most recent years, the opioid crisis that we now call toxic street drug poisoning crisis that has definitely been more difficult than anything we have ever faced," Muckle says. "The pandemic made everything worse, it made drug use worse, it made toxic drug supply worse, it made overdose deaths worse. It has decimated the mental health of that community; it has pushed us down and it is not getting better.
OPH data also shows that in 2021 there were 138 opioid overdose-related deaths in Ottawa. The most recent data collected for 2022 reflects the first four months, with 29 overdose-related deaths. Muckle says many clients to the site are “polysubstance users", meaning they use alcohol, stimulants, or opioids, and that combination is difficult to respond to.
"As someone who has worked alongside , to just watch the way that things work, and the responsiveness and the quickness that things have happened and the constant pivoting," Boyd said."Things have really changed. When we were doing our advocacy for supervised consumption sites, and it was Oxycontin that was the drug we were worried about; and so really, we have had the drug supply do a runaround us in terms of what the response should be," Boyd said.
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