Drug users are being urged to not use alone and to stagger their doses, after a spike in the number of overdoses at Vancouver’s safe injection site Tuesday.
There were 15 overdoses at Insite during the clinic’s 18-hour working day which runs from 10 a.m to 3 a.m. the next day. Normally, they say, they see about seven.
“We already doubled the new normal, which is unusually high,” said Tim Gauthier, a clinical coordinator at Insite.
The average used to be two overdoses per day when Insite first opened in 2013. But as of October 2016, when the overdose crisis emerged, that number went up to
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