Downtown Eastside Connections Clinic - Addictions Treatment
Addictions / Substance Use
Provided by Vancouver Coastal Health
We provide low-barrier care for all people who use substances.
Downtown Eastside (DTES) Connections is a low-barrier addiction medicine clinic serving all people with substance use disorders. This clinic offers same-day access to treatment for substance use disorders, including opioid agonist therapy, and can connect clients to appropriate community-based health services. We are open seven days a week 365 days a year, including weekends and holidays.
We provide:
Hours of operation:
Open every day including weekends and statutory holidays 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM.
The Connections clinic has resumed intakes for new clients. The clinic is open to intakes from all referral sources and to walk-ins, 7 days a week.
- Same-day assessment and treatment for substance use disorders that include opioids, alcohol, nicotine, GHB, cannabis, stimulants and benzodiazepines.
- Access to opioid agonist therapy and other treatments.
- Local outreach, referrals to bed-based and other psychosocial treatments, harm reduction supplies, and care that considers psychological and social factors.
- Connections offers care to anyone without a prescriber or those who have a prescriber but need bridge prescriptions. The clinic accepts drop-in clients or direct referrals from VCH and non-VCH services. These may include DTES Primary Care sites, non-VCH community partners, hospitals, Access Central – Detox Referral phone line, Overdose Outreach Team (OOT), Lighthouse Virtual Substance Use Care Clinic, Providence Health Care Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (RAAC), Home Health, the Evelyne Saller Centre, and WISH Drop-in Centre Society.
- Our goal is to provide low-barrier, same-day access to substance use services and then connect clients to appropriate community-based health services. These services may include primary care clinics or bed-based recovery services.
- Twelve week 1:1 Peer-led Contingency Management for individuals with stimulant use disorder.
Hours of operation:
Open every day including weekends and statutory holidays 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM.
The Connections clinic has resumed intakes for new clients. The clinic is open to intakes from all referral sources and to walk-ins, 7 days a week.
604-675-3600
Toll Free: 1-866-658-1221 (After hours / Access central referral line)
Website: https://www.vch.ca/en/location...
429 Alexander Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6A 1C6
Hours: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. 7 days a week including STATS.
Service is available in English.
Cost: No cost
Associated Programs/Services
Also offered by Vancouver Coastal Health:
Just the closest matches listed. Click to see more!- Overdose Prevention & Supervised Consumption [Vancouver Coastal Health Area]
- Downtown Eastside Youth Outreach Team (YOT)
- Community Health Centre - Raven Song Community Health Centre - Addiction Services
Availability
Service area: Vancouver + show cities
Service Types Provided
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Cannabis Use Disorder
- Navigation Support - Addiction Services
- Rapid / Urgent Access
- Stimulant Use Disorder
- Harm Reduction: Counselling Support for Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction in Pregnancy, Naloxone, and Needle Exchange
- Health Authority Addiction Services: Addiction Services - Adult
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Treatment - OAT: Methadone, Suboxone Induction, and Suboxone Maintenance
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at a single location
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