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Posted: Apr. 25, 2024 11:43AMThe Green Party of British Columbia is calling on the NDP government to allow inhalation of drugs at all supervised consumption sites as a way to help address concerns about drug use in public spaces and at hospitals in the wake of decriminalization.
B.C. has had supervised consumption sites for almost 20 years, but they’ve mostly served people who inject drugs and not those who smoke them.The Greens say one way to get people to stop smoking drugs in public places and hospitals, which– is to equip all sites with the ventilation, equipment and staff necessary to allow inhalation, giving users a place to go.
Barely half of B.C.’s 50 supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites allow inhalation or smoking, though six of the nine sites on Vancouver Island do. “If we want to solve the problem of people smoking drugs in hospitals or smoking drugs in inappropriate places, part of that is access to safe consumption sites, supervised consumption sites that can handle inhalation,” said B.C. Green leader Sonia Furstenau on Wednesday., they are saying that we need that kind of infrastructure in health-care settings,” she said.
Furstenau added that those suffering addictions should get immediate prescription alternatives, so they don’t need to smoke while in hospital.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.On Wednesday, B.C.
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