A fast track to addiction treatment is coming to Vancouver’s downtown hospital
The downtown Vancouver hospital at an epicentre of British Columbia’s mounting toxic drug crisis will soon have a new model to improve substance use and mental health care.On Sunday , Premier David Eby vowed to integrate services for mental health, overdose response, addiction treatment and housing at St. Paul’s Hospital as part of his Safer Communities Action Plan.
In 2016 St. Paul’s opened the Rapid Access Addiction Clinic that provides low-barrier outpatient services for people using substances. The hospital is also home to the Transitional Care Centre for unhoused patients moving back to community care and the Hub, which diverts patients in need of mental health and substance use care away from the emergency room.
The Tyee contacted the Premier’s Office for more information about how this new model will work and overcome the capacity and resource barriers plaguing St. Paul’s now. Many people who need a safe place to heal and rest are discharged early due to capacity issues, unless they can prove they present an immediate danger to themselves or others, said Sarah Blyth, executive director of the Overdose Prevention Society.
But he remembers walking back to the Downtown Eastside from St. Paul’s one rainy winter evening without any warm clothes. The hospital had provided him a bus ticket but it was so late transit had stopped running.
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