Responding to a Public Health Emergency: The Opioid Crisis in BC - Part 2
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PHS Community Services Society Overdose Crisis Response Christy Sutherland MD CCFP DABAM Medical Director
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PHS Community Services Society Overdose Crisis Response
Christy Sutherland MD CCFP DABAM
Medical Director
Low Barrier Clinic
• We have been offering same-day methadone and burprenorphine starts since 2014
Take home naloxone training.
• Between Aug 2016 – present we have distributed 2500 kits.
Naloxone training in the alley
Photo by Travis Lupick
Clinics in the Alley
Photo by Travis Lupick
Clinic in the alley
Photo by Travis Lupick
Clinic in the Street Market
Photo by Travis Lupick
Naloxone training, flu shots, wound care, methadone, suboxone
Overdose Response Rooms
• Maple Hotel and 412 East Cordova
• Rooms staffed by mental health workers and drug users for observing injections
• Well trained in overdose management
Spikes on Bikes
Injectable Therapy
• Our first person started in September 2016
• Our second started in January 2017
• Now is embedded in our overdose response room – supervised by a nurse sometimes, but also by a mental health worker
Training addiction medicine nurses
Training addiction medicine physicians
• Clinics in the New Fountain Shelter in the evenings
• Overdose training and supplies for staff – average of 300 vials of narcan per week
• Over 1400 overdose interventions in our hotels in 2016
• Clinic peer line for outreach, follow up, and connecting people to treatment
Thinking about leadership
