Enhanced resources available at UBC to help prevent overdoses
September 5, 2024
500 additional doses of nasal naloxone will be held in 250 new naloxone cabinets that were received from the province. These cabinets will be installed across UBC’s campuses and residence buildings.
As students return to campus for another academic year, UBC is reinforcing the importance of community care as part of the university’s comprehensive approach to substance-use health and harm reduction.
“The health and safety of our university community is our highest priority. We have a shared role in keeping each other safe, and that is especially clear with the current increased toxicity and unpredictability of street drugs across the province,” said Noorjean Hassam, Associate Vice-President, Student Health and Wellbeing.
UBC is a key participant in the Post-Secondary Overdose Prevention Steering Committee, which was established by the province over the summer.
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