'Overwhelming': Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls

The black concrete walls outside Saskatoon’s only safe consumption site show the wake left by the city’s drug crisis.

The names of those who’ve died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman who went by Baby Sis. She died in January.

Data from Saskatoon's emergency operation centre shows firefighters have gone to 901 drug poisoning calls since January, with more than half of those occurring in March. At this time last year, they went to 352.