The Interior Health Authority has decided to delay its opening of the first supervised inhalation site in Nelson, B.C., after local residents raised safety concerns.
The decision Thursday came just one day after announcing the supervised inhalation site would be open at the Nelson Friendship Outreach Clubhouse on Friday and Saturday nights, starting this week.
The authority had intended to operate the site in collaboration with the AIDS Network Outreach and Support Society (ANKORS) and the Rural Empowered Drug Use Network (REDUN), harm-reduction organizations based in the Kootenays.
There are currently two overdose prevention sites in Nelson, a 346-kilometre drive southeast of Kelowna: one operated by by ANKORS at 101 Baker St., and another
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