Overdose & Prevention

Drug overdose deaths can be prevented. Find support to link people to care before an overdose or to implement life-saving strategies and actions when an overdose occurred.

Overdose Prevention

Squamish Overdose Prevention Site

A safe, warm, supervised space to use substances (equipped with naloxone, oxygen, and AED).

37930 Third Avenue, Squamish

12:00 (noon) - 10:00 pm 7 days/week
604-849-1991

Harm reduction supplies/disposal
Safer consumption practices info.
Take-home naloxone kits/training
Referrals to addictions services
Condoms
Drug testing

Squamish Helping Hands

@ Under One Roof - 37871 Third Ave.

Call: 604-390-3000

Offering harm reduction supplies, outreach workers, support & referrals to services. * No doctor referral needed

Lifeguard App

To help save more lives and ensure people who use drugs alone have access to the supports they need.

Brave App

Designed to prevent overdose death for anyone using drugs alone. Requires access to a smartphone and internet.

Addictions Access & Treatment

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)

Opioid Agonist Treatment

Squamish, Whistler & Pemberton (OAT) Clinics provide prescribed medicine in a supervised clinical setting to treat people who have a problematic pattern of opioid use.

* Access OAT through doctor referral OR VCH Intake.

VCH Detox Referral Line

1 (866) 658-1221

Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton,

Open 9am-7:45pm, 7 days/week

VCH Prevention & Response

Overdose Outreach Teams:

Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton

Rapid Access Addictions Centre (RAAC) - St. Paul’s Hospital

7 days/week.

Contact Information

BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions