Vancouver’s 1st indoor supervised indoor inhalation site opens

Vancouver’s 1st indoor supervised indoor inhalation site opens

Vancouver’s first indoor supervised inhalation room opened on Wednesday in the Downtown Eastside with the goal of preventing fatal overdoses. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) opened the facility at Hope to Health Research & Innovation Centre at 625 Powell St. The space already operates as a mixed supervised and injection site. The Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association says the site is a welcome addition to the city and means people will also be able to access other health-care services and get people into treatment if they want it. As Grace Ke reports, experts say it couldn’t come at a better time, since inhalation overdoses have skyrocketed in recent years. #GlobalNews #Vancouver #OpioidCrisis #DTES Credit to : Global News