B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix announces the establishment of a task force to set province-wide standards for the use of illicit drugs in hospitals. The opposition argues against the presence of illicit drugs in hospitals.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says a task force will establish province-wide standards for the use of illicit drugs in hospitals. As Aaron McArthur reports, the opposition says there should be no illicit drugs in hospitals anywhere.
“Decriminalization of illicit substances makes sense: it is not a criminal matter, it is a health issue,” she said. Gear said nurses also want the province to take action to ensure that patients are not consuming illicit drugs in their hospital rooms and that drug use is restricted to designated supervised consumption areas.“Nurses shouldn’t be the ones that are enforcing the policies, that needs to be somebody else, whether that’s relational security officers or if that’s hospital management, what have you,” she said. “And that there needs to be education, training, support.
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