UBC students in Vancouver gain new source for potentially life-saving drug kits
VANCOUVER — The Urgent Care Centre at the University of British Columbia Hospital on the Point Grey campus is the latest to be equipped with take-home naloxone kits.
The kits are offered to patients at risk of an overdose because naloxone can quickly reverse the effects of a potentially deadly opioid overdose.
The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says UBC joins other hospitals and health-care facilities already offering the kits within the region.
The health authority plans to have take-home naloxone kits available in all 14 of its urgent-care centres and emergency departments in the next few months, and kits can also be obtained at health or harm-reduction centres.