Son dealt with severe mental health and addiction issues for a decade, couldn’t get the care he needed
When he was in elementary school, he liked to play soccer and swim. In middle school, he started playing trumpet and took sailing lessons.
Archie Courtnall is the regional emergency psychiatric unit, and is supposed to provide short-term stabilization for patients, and move them on to longer-term care when needed. For Pazder, one of the major roadblocks to care was that his mental health issues had become intertwined with substance use problems.
Finally, after another suicide attempt in February of 2016, he was placed in the B.C. Psychosis Program at the University of British Columbia Hospital. With proper treatment and medication, he was stabilized. In April of 2023, his mother said he attempted suicide again, this time by overdosing on fentanyl. With help from his brother, she gave him naloxone while they waited for an ambulance. He ended up in the intensive care unit for five days.
The family laid him down in bed to rest. Half an hour later they went to check on him and he had lost consciousness. This started another episode with naloxone and paramedics, but before they could get the naloxone in, his breathing dropped. The 911 operator was about to walk the family through CPR when the ambulance arrived. Just as they got there, Pazder woke up.
After just five days, and despite the fact that the family and his ACT team had advocated for him to be put into longer-term care at the centre, he was suddenly released. The family was left wondering what would have happened if they had been listened to at Archie Courtnall.A spokesperson for Island Health would not comment specifically on Pazder’s care, except to say that a review has been conducted.
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