Service
Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Vernon
Provided by Interior Health
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Mental Health and Substance Use Services - Vernon
Provides a range of health care and support services for adults with mental health and/or substance use issues. Services include assessment, treatment, crisis response, counselling, education, and referral to community resources. Also provides counselling to individuals who are concerned about someone else's substance use. Open referral. Also provides harm reduction supplies at this location. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens. 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. Serves Armstrong, Lumby, Spallumcheen, and Vernon. Office hours are 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.
Address
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Vernon Health Centre, 1440 14th Avenue
Vernon, BC, V1B 2T1
Mailing Address
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Vernon Health Centre, 1440 14th Avenue
Vernon, BC, V1B 2T1