Sioux Lookout, Ont., to get its own addictions treatment facility, with a focus on First Nations culture

After years of pleading for help, people suffering from addictions in northwestern Ontario will finally be able to get treatment close to home, the province announced this week.

The province’s associate minister of mental health and addictions, Michael Tibollo, was in Sioux Lookout Tuesday to announce more than $4 million to create 37 new addictions treatment beds in the town of over 5,000 people that’s about 350 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.

“Sioux Lookout, although it’s a small town, supports 33 [First Nations] — many of them are remote and fly-in — and so this new addiction centre is something that’s desperately needed