Outpatient addiction treatment coming to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS — A new outpatient addiction treatment service will run seven days a week in Kamloops, according to a press release issued Tuesday (April 12) by Interior Health (IH).
People with substance use challenges will be able to use outpatient withdrawal management services. IH is also introducing a new virtual addiction medicine clinic.
IH said that the outpatient model means a person doesn’t need to be admitted to a facility to receive withdrawal support and patients can receive care, including prescriptions, in their own home.
The new services are anticipated to start by summer 2022.