Overdose Prevention Services: Interior Health
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Find supervised consumption sites in Interior Health region.
Description
Overdose prevention services provide places where teams of trained staff provide people who use drugs with a safe space to be monitered when using drugs, to help prevent and recover from overdoses.
Other available services may include:
• Distribution of supplies for safer injection (E.g., sterile needles)
• Safe disposal options
• Education on safe injection technique and infection prevention
• Overdose prevention and intervention
• Naloxone kits and training
• Drug checking
• Medical and counselling services
• Referrals to substance use treatment
• Connection to housing and other support services
Locations in Interior Health region.