The province has announced additional funding to help accelerate the response to an increasingly toxic drug supply.
An announcement of $10.5 million to further scale up overdose prevention services, expand access to safe prescription alternatives. There will also be new outreach teams to help prevent overdose deaths, save lives and connect more people to treatment and recovery through the province.
Funding will also be going towards opening 17 new supervised consumption services and 12 new inhalation services in communities hit hardest by the overdose crisis.
The funding will also be use to expand safe prescription alternatives for people at high risk of overdose. Nurses in various communities will be added to conduct initial assessments. Forty-two new full-time registered nurses, psychiatric nurses, social workers and peer support workers are being added to 14 new outreach teams throughout the province.
The funding and framework set up by the province is all part of their Pathway to Hope which is a roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia.
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