B.C. Nurse says decriminalization has made it harder to treat overdose patients

By Samantha Holomay "We are having people coming in, given Narcan, and they are not responding to it," said a Registered Nurse. A withdrawal and detox management nurse says she has far more patients detoxing in her care after the provincial government decriminalized certain substances. Megan, a Registered Nurse (who wishes to remain anonymous) at one of the three alcohol and

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