#SFHP2613211ANational rules for addiction care shelters with accommodation
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The order sets national operating requirements for addiction care shelters that include accommodation. These shelters are designed for highly marginalized drug users, especially people without stable housing who cannot access existing services because of their substance use, health problems, or living conditions. The model combines continuous medico-social accommodation with 24-hour access to supervised consumption, harm reduction, medical follow-up, mental health support, social assistance, and help moving toward longer-term housing. Health and social care providers running or partnering with these shelters will need to organize around continuous care, overdose and infection prevention, rights access, and coordination with a nearby health facility.
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Key Changes
- Creates national requirements for addiction care shelters that include accommodation
- Allows 24-hour supervised consumption access without requiring users to stop drug use first
- Requires integrated medical, mental health, social support, rights access, and housing-transition services
Obligations
What this law requires
Operate the addiction care shelter with continuous medico-social accommodation for eligible drug users, without requiring prior cessation of substance use as a condition of accommodation.
Provide accommodated users with 24-hour access to a supervised consumption space within the addiction care shelter model.
Implement harm-reduction measures to limit overdose risks and contamination or infection risks among accommodated users.
Provide accommodated users with advice on safer substance-use practices.
Coordinate each accommodated user’s care pathway through a team with recognized expertise in harm reduction and risk mitigation.