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B.C. expands access to safer drug alternatives for people at risk of overdose
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Paramedic specialists Brian Twaites and David Hilder of B.C. Ambulance debrief after responding to a drug overdose in downtown Vancouver, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. British Columbia will provide safer prescription drugs to people at risk of overdose and death from toxic substances, without expecting them to enter treatment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
VANCOUVER – British Columbia says it’s bringing in a new policy that will expand access to safer prescription drugs for people at risk of overdose and death from toxic substances, without expecting them to enter treatment.
VICTORIA British Columbia says it s bringing in a new policy that will expand access to safer prescription drugs for people at risk of overdose and death from toxic substances, without expecting them to enter treatment. The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says people who have been clinically assessed will get alternatives including oral opioids to replace drugs that could be laced with potentially deadly fentanyl. It says substitutes include fentanyl patches already being used, and for the first time fentanyl tablets, as well as expanded use of injectable and tablet hydromorphone in clinical settings - and a referral won t be required.