A group of physicians are setting up unofficial overdose prevention sites outside two Vancouver Island hospitals Monday, aiming to help people struggling with addiction – while also sending a message to the government.



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'Saving lives is not controversial': B.C. doctors set up 'unsanctioned' overdose prevention sites at hospitals

A group of physicians are setting up unofficial overdose prevention sites outside two Vancouver Island hospitals Monday, aiming to help people struggling with addiction – while also sending a message to the government.

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Doctors on Vancouver Island say they're setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of two hospitals this week because the B.C. government hasn't lived up to its promise to set aside space for the sites.

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Doctors set up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites at B.C. hospitals

The physicians set up pop-up sites at both Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Monday.

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Toronto

Ontario

2 Vancouver Island hospitals get unsanctioned overdose prevention sites

An attempt by doctors to set up overdose prevention sites on hospital property in Nanaimo and Victoria were shutdown Monday by the Island health authority, forcing the volunteers to move their operations across the street.

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Sunshine Coast

British Columbia

Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing

Rocky Mountain Outlook

Doctors on Vancouver Island say they're setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of Nanaimo General and Royal Jubilee hospitals this week because the B.C.

Prince George Citizen

Doctors on Vancouver Island say they're setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of Nanaimo General and Royal Jubilee hospitals this week because the B.C. government hasn't lived up to its promise to set aside space for the sites.

Vancouver Sun

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Vancouver

Greater Vancouver

Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites — without government blessing

Pop-up overdose prevention site set up across the street instead

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Victoria

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Advocates stopped from setting up overdose-prevention site at Nanaimo hospital

Sooke News Mirror

Attempts by doctors to set up overdose prevention sites on hospital property in Nanaimo and Victoria were shut down Monday by the Island health authority, forcing the volunteers to move their operations across the street.

'Saving lives is not controversial': B.C. doctors set up 'unsanctioned' overdose prevention sites at hospitals

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