Vancouver Detox

Provides free, six-week inpatient medical withdrawal management for 24 stable adults ages 19 and up living in Vancouver. Services include assessment, individual and group counselling, psychoeducational groups, acupuncture and other alternate therapies, and medical management for clients on supervised prescription withdrawal protocols. Accepts clients on methadone maintenance who are withdrawing from other drugs. Staffed by a culturally diverse, multidisciplinary team that uses medical and non-medical approaches to relieving withdrawal symptoms. Call for intake and orientation; intake is through Access Central-Detox Referral Line (hours are 9 am to 7:45 pm daily); walk-in bed accessed through Harbourlight Detox (ring door bell) when space allows.