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Alberta Closing Down Calgary and Lethbridge Supervised Consumption Sites

By Sarah Scott Mar 20, 2026 | 1:24 PM
The Alberta government is shutting down the province’s first-ever supervised drug consumption site.Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis says the Sheldon M. Chumir Centre in Calgary, as well as a mobile service in Lethbridge will be shuttered.

This is seen as the next step in the province’s move to a recovery-oriented approach to addiction.

Both are set to close at the end of June.

The Chumir Centre opened in 2017 in response to the ongoing opioid and overdose crisis, and six more sites opened in the following years across the province.

The closures mean only three supervised consumption sites will remain in Alberta, with two being in Edmonton.

Last year the province closed a site housed within the Royal Alexandra Hospital just north of Edmonton’s downtown core, as well as a site in Red Deer.

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