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Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Gabriola Island

Provided by Island Health
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Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Gabriola Island

Provides a range of health care and support services for adults ages 19 and up with mental health and/or substance use issues. Services include assessment, treatment, counselling, education, and referral to community resources. Also provides counselling to individuals who are concerned about someone else’s substance use. In addition, provides access to other specialty substance use and mental health services. Accepts self-referrals through an intake form or via a detailed phone message about service wanted; to access psychiatric service, a physician referral is required. Hours are generally 8:30 am to 4:30; nurse is available Monday to Thursday, and social worker is available Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. An outreach program of the Mental Health and Substance Use office in Nanaimo.

Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Provides opioid users with free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone.

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