Health authorities have differing approaches on how to deal with drug use in hospitals, but task force will standardize rules, minister says.
Health Minister Adrian Dix insists there are no plans to have overdose-prevention sites at all B.C. hospitals, but how a provincial task force will standardize rules around patient drug use in hospitals remains unclear.
A statement from Dix last week said the task force would “ensure the use of drugs is specific to designated spaces within or around the facility,” but Premier David Eby said this week there will be “no province-wide mandate that every single hospital has to have an overdose-prevention site or a consumption area,” because not all hospitals are dealing with the issue.
Dix said he wants to see health authorities all following the same set of rules when it comes to illicit drugs. Federal Mental Heath and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks plans to meet with provincial counterpart Jennifer Whiteside and B.C. law enforcement partners to discuss decriminalization, safe-supply diversion and other matters.
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