Two involuntary secure-care sites are due to open in spring for people struggling with severe addiction, brain injury and mental illness
Two involuntary secure-care sites are due to open in the province in late spring for people struggling with severe addiction, brain injury and mental illness while overdose prevention sites planned for Island hospitals remain on pause.
Vigo’s appointment came on the heels of stranger attacks in Vancouver — which left one man dead and another with a severed hand — and in Victoria, where a man assaulted three people on Government Street, including a woman who was pushed over a bench and hit her head on the sidewalk. The province also plans 400 psychiatric beds, including the upgrading of about 280 outdated beds, at new and expanded hospitals providing a mix of voluntary and involuntary care.
The province significantly scaled back the experiment last spring to re-criminalize all public drug use, leaving decriminalization to apply only to a person’s shelter, sanctioned drug-testing sites and supervised consumption sites. “I take some comfort from the fact that overdoses are going down, but still one’s too many and so we’ve got a lot of work to do, and we’ve got a lot of people surviving with brain injury that brings other challenges that we have to deal with,” Eby said.
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