A Manitoba father who lost his son to a drug overdose is pleased to see the province is still planning to open a supervised consumption site in Winnipeg in the new year, after the government had to scratch the initial location for the facility in the face of stiff opposition.

"It's a step in the right direction," Chuck Neufeld told CBC News. "You can't just flip the switch and things are going to change, there has to be some give and take."

Neufeld's son, Sean, died in February 2021, days after he was released from a treatment centre. At the time, Sean had been consuming OxyContin, a synthetic analgesic drug, for about a decade after an injury at work and a number of prescriptions for pain relievers.

The father said his son got "a pull" for OxyContin. Similar to other drugs, it can be f

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