Interior Health is implementing a new model to help connect people in the East Kootenay who have opioid use disorder with treatment options.
The model would help provide opioid agonist treatments such as methadone and suboxone.
It would be done through a newly launched, centralized East Kootenay-wide OAT clinic, providing clients with access to an OAT prescriber on any weekday at local Mental Health and Substance Use centres.
The service will be available in Cranbrook, Creston, Invermere, Golden and Sparwood.
IH says the new model hopes to address several challenges from the geography of the Kootenay region.
Interior Health adds this also provides more options for clients when prescriptions run out, rather than relying on illicit opioids.
– Walter Felitsyn, Director of clinical operations, Interior Health
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