A Fight Not to Die - A Chat with Adam at Moss Park CTS

“I want to say survival of the fittest but it’s really just a fight for the weakest not to die.”|Recorded Tuesday, March 17, 2026. In today’s episode we are on location at Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service in downtown Toronto in the immediate wake of the Ford government’s announcement that they will be eliminating funding for the last remaining supervised consumption sites. We speak with Adam, a member of the Moss Park CTS community and someone whose life is directly impacted by this announcement.Walking Radio is non-commercial, volunteer-created, non-monetized, always free, and is powered by the stories that are too often ignored.Please consider adding your voice to keep desperately needed lifesaving services like the Moss Park CTS in operation. The toxic drug supply crisis has already claimed more than 53,000 lives and counting in Canada since 2016: our friends, our neighbours, our loved ones.Supervised consumption saves lives. Between March 2020 and November 2025, the Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service on its own saw 83,211 total visits from over 19,079 unique clients. The staff at just this site alone responded to 3,269 overdoses, and provided 48,489 services and referrals during that same time period.|CONTENT WARNING: Walking Radio explores complex topics in a forthright, strengths-focused, trauma-informed and sometimes unexpectedly lighthearted manner. These topics include but are not limited to: substance use, death, violence, disability, mental health and mental illness, suicide, homelessness, sexual assault, stigma, grief, loss, oppression, discrimination, HIV, trauma, government neglect, institutional failure, incarceration, political abandonment, depraved indifference, necropolitics, and social murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.|Links: Opioid and Stimulant-Related Harms in Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids-stimulants/Supervised Consumption Sites Dashboard: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/supervised-consumption-sites/Opioid Mortality Report: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Diseases-and-Conditions/Mental-Illness-Substance-Use/Opioids/Opioid-Mortality-ReportToronto Overdose Information System: https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-inspections-monitoring/toronto-overdose-information-system/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit walkingradio.substack.com