Service
Nanaimo Overdose Prevention Site
Provided by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - Mid-Island Branch
2 other services offered by this agency.
Nanaimo Overdose Prevention Site
Provides a place where people who use drugs can be safely monitored and treated immediately if they overdose. Can accommodate injection and inhalation use. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. 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, and injection supplies. Provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Provides Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone. Offers confidential testing of substances to detect contaminants such as fentanyl and benzodiazepines. Open from 11 am to 9 pm seven days a week.
Address
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250 Albert Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2V6
Mailing Address
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437 Wesley Street
Nanaimo, BC, V9R 2T8