Reposted from Nanaimo News Now NANAIMO — A group of Island doctors and volunteers pushing for governments and health authorities to provide overdose prevention sites at hospitals continues gaining traction. Doctors for Safer Drug Policy has continued operating their unsanctioned pop-up overdose prevention site (OPS) across from the Nanaimo Regional […]
This month, December’s meeting, Erica Williamson. Island Health, Discovery Youth & Family Substance Use Services will talk about the services they offer. Read more about their organization and services here Join this month’s Zoom Meeting Agenda Oceanside Community Action Team (OCAT) Meeting Tuesday , 2024, December 17, 1 to 3 pm by […]
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health launched 988 service one year ago BY Jessica Durling and Nanaimo News Bulletin – WARNING: This article mentions suicide. More than 15,000 people have reached out to the Vancouver Island Crisis Society through contacting 988 since the service began about a year ago, the society […]
From the Toronto Star, by By Manisha Krishnan, Contributor – Dr. Jess Wilder never thought of being a doctor as an inherently political job.B ut as she found herself confronting a dozen cops and security guards trying to stop her from opening an unsanctioned overdose prevention site outside the hospital she’s […]
Advocate Beverley Planes says the system has failed people who use drugs. BY MICK SWEETMAN The Discourse – Read the full source article here – Nanaimo Community Action Team coordinator Beverley Planes says the overdose death of a man in a washroom at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital’s emergency room happened because […]
The district sent out notices Friday saying the Victoria Native Friendship Centre would expand to offer 33 beds, rather than its usual 25, during extreme weather by Andrew A. Duffy at the Times Colonist. Read the full source article here The District of Saanich — under fire this week for […]
‘This is an example of why services like this are needed,’ doctor says by Cindy E. Harnett from the Times Colonist – Read the source article here A patient fatally overdosed at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Tuesday shortly after a nearby pop-up service to prevent such deaths had closed, […]
Organizers were forced to move overdose prevention sites from hospital property in Victoria and Nanaimo after Island Health shut them down by Michael John Lo and Carla Wilson, Times Colonist. Read the full source article Doctors and volunteers received a frosty welcome from Island Health security guards on Monday when […]
OCAT Monthly Meetings are held every Third Tuesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 3:00. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88606024399?pwd=VK0rGtcbRsaa0F6kmV5H3gp4Pb0eae.1 Meeting ID: 886 0602 4399Passcode: 907444 This Month, November our guest speaker will be Jarrold Paetkau, pastor with Manna Homeless Ministries. Also will feature updates on the Treatment Centre, and updates […]
by Skye Ryan at Chek News – Now that Cathi Bates has her daughter Carli back in her life again, she doesn’t want to let go. “Just having her back in my life again. When she was on the streets I didn’t sleep for close to a year when she […]
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