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B.C. expands safer alternatives to toxic drugs


Brandon Sun
By: Camille Bains, The Canadian Press
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Last Modified: 7:09 PM CDT Thursday, Jul. 15, 2021
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VANCOUVER - British Columbia s mental health and addictions minister has announced 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.
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 ....

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BC's opioid substitution system isn't a system at all, say frontliners | iNFOnews


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Patients like Shaun Venturini use agonists like methadone to reduce or end their dependence on the toxic street drug supply. But the treatment is still inaccessible to many.
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June 11, 2021 - 7:00 PM
Laura Shaver’s phone rings at all hours. It rings when she and her partner are dealing with mould in their apartment, interrupting texts to their landlord. Calls from Ontario come in at six in the morning, where it’s already an acceptable time to do business but Shaver is still asleep.
She’s just one person, but it’s Shaver’s job to answer the phone. As Providence Health’s peer navigator for opioid agonist therapy, or OAT, she’s the point person for people who use drugs and are seeking access to substitutes for opioids, a first-line treatment in British Columbia where the street drug supply has grown increasingly toxic. ....

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Death toll climbs to 7 at Kelowna care home COVID outbreak | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source


May 14, 2021 - 3:11 PM
The death toll due to COVID-19 at the Spring Valley Care Centre in Kelowna has climbed to seven as of today.
But Interior Health’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Albert de Villiers, cast doubts on how many of those deaths – and many others in the province – are actually due to COVID-19.
“If somebody dies while they have got COVID in the hospital or in the community, they’re counted as a COVID death,” he said during a news briefing today, May 14. “So, if I’m 89 years old, I tested positive for COVID on Tuesday, on Wednesday I die of a heart attack or I have palliative cancer and on Thursday I die because of the cancer, it’s still going to be counted as a COVID death at that point because I had COVID.” ....

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