Groups working to reduce the harm caused by illegal drug use on P.E.I. say their work is being hindered by misinformation, some of which is promoted by Charlottetown city councillors.

Members of the Native Council of P.E.I. and PEERS Alliance who are involved in harm reduction say their staff have found themselves the target of anger over drug addiction in the province.

“Many of them have received death threats, as well as other threats of violence toward them and of harassment,” Bradley Cooper, chief policy analyst of the Native Council of P.E.I., told Island Morning host Mitch Cormier during a live panel discussion on harm reduction.