Vancouver Coastal Health is making another tool in the ongoing opioid crisis available to local drug users.
The health authority announced Thursday morning that take-home drug checking strips will soon be available at designated sites throughout the Vancouver Coastal Health region. The decision to offer the take-home testing kits was made after results from a new study showed that take-home drug checking is as accurate as drug checking at a health care facility in identifying opioids contaminated with fentanyl, which is responsible for killing thousands of people in B.C. in recent years.
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In Vancouver, strips will be initially available at Insite, Molson overdose prevention site, Overdose Prevention Society, St. Paul’s Hospital overdose prevention site, and the Three Bridges and Robert and Lilly Lee community health centres.
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Similar story can be found in the following media outlet: The Kingston Whig-Standard.
