Treatment centre compliant with regulations, says report on overdose death
VANCOUVER — Three days after Brandon Jansen entered his 11th treatment centre for an addiction to the opioid fentanyl, he died partly because an antidote and therapeutic drug that could have stopped his cravings were not available, the centre’s chief executive says.
Jansen, who was 20, died in March at the Sunshine Coast Health Centre in Powell River, a month before the province declared a public health emergency in overdose-related deaths.
The coroner’s service will hold a public inquest into Jansen’s death in January and it has said the case will be used as a new avenue to address the crisis that killed 555 people in the province between January and September.
An investigation by Vancouver Coastal Health released Monday said the private health centre was in compliance with provincial regulations.