Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
$4,827,269.00 CAD
- Department
- Health Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- July 23, 2020 – March 31, 2024
- Reference
- hc-sc:271-2020-2021-Q4-00120
Published purpose
Delivered a prescribed alternatives (safer supply) program that prescribed pharmaceutical-grade opioids to people most at risk of overdose. The project focused on those who had been diagnosed with an opioid use disorder and who had not been helped by traditional substance use services and treatments.
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Health Canada provided funding to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority for a prescribed alternatives (safer supply) program offering pharmaceutical-grade opioids to individuals at high risk of overdose who had not responded to traditional opioid use disorder treatments.
Category: Health Primarily funds activity in Canada
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