The overdose prevention site in Red Deer will be closing at the end of the month, following a decision by a judge released Wednesday. 

Justice C.A. Rickards of Court of King's Bench denied a request by Aaron Brown, a man with opioid use disorder, to keep the OPS open beyond March 31. 

In January, a different judge granted an interim injunction to continue being open around the clock until the end of March. The government was planning to phase out the site and had already cut operating hours to 12…