Addiction Medicine
Related topics: Mental health and substance use Substance use Vancouver mental health and substance use services
Need help immediately?
If there is a life-threatening safety concern, please call 9-1-1 or go to the Emergency Department at your nearest hospital.
Suicide prevention hotline: 1-800-784-2433
BC Crisis Line: 604-310-6789
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Indigenous Crisis and Support Line - KUU-US Crisis Support Line: 1-800-588-8717
Harm reduction: Toward the Heart
Addiction medicine includes clinical assessments, consultations, treatment planning and aftercare for people struggling with substances such as alcohol and opioids.
What to expect
Employs various interventions to address medical, psychological, social, and emotional concerns.
Addiction medicine services use a harm-reduction evidence-based model and diverse interventions such as opiate agonist therapy (Methadone, Suboxone and Morphine), anti-craving medication for alcohol dependence and Narcan (Naloxone) training to reverse opiate overdose.
Find this service near you
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Community health centresAddiction Medicine at Downtown Community Health Centre
569 Powell Street Vancouver -
Harm reduction site
Addiction Medicine at Downtown Eastside Connections Clinic
429 Alexander Street Vancouver -
Community health centres
Addiction Medicine at Pender Community Health Centre
59 West Pender Street Vancouver -
Community health centresAddiction Medicine at Raven Song Mental Health Substance Use Team
2450 Ontario Street Vancouver -
Mental health clinics
Addiction Medicine at South Mental Health and Substance Use Team
1200 West 73rd Avenue, Suite 220 Vancouver