More addiction treatment needed as BC drug decriminalization pilot enters 2nd year: doctors, advocates (CBC)

More than 13,500 people in B.C. have died after taking unregulated drugs since 2016

... there is no clear path to continuing care for many of the patients without a family doctor, said nurse lead Victoria Ramos.

"We have such limited resources for where patients can go so we kind of hold on to them until they can be transferred,'' Ramos said of the clinic that opened in September 2016, five months after British Columbia declared an ongoing public health emergency due to rising overdose deaths ...

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