Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
$5,718,092.00 CAD
- Department
- Health Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- July 23, 2020 – March 31, 2025
- Reference
- hc-sc:271-2023-2024-Q4-00050
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 to deliver a prescribed alternatives (safer supply) program offering pharmaceutical-grade opioids to people at high risk of overdose who had not benefited from traditional substance use treatments.
Category: Health Primarily funds activity in Canada
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