Seniors with gastrointestinal disease may need to take a variety of medications to prevent diarrhea. Some medications may cause diarrhea in seniors. It's important to keep raw meat away from other foods or utensils that will be consumed or touched. Diarrhea can be fatal for elderly individuals.
Insite is the first legal supervised drug injection site in North America, located at 139 East Hastings Street, in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] The DTES had 4700 chronic drug users in 2000 and has been considered to be the centre of an injection drug epidemic.
A separate safe-injection site, Insite, also operates in the city, but it, unlike the Dr. Peter Centre, has an exemption. All we're doing when we offer harm reduction services is preventing people from dying of a drug overdose, said Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer of Vancouver Coastal Health..C. safe-injection site applies to Health Canada for drug law exemption. In this May 11, 2011 file photo, registered nurse Sammy Mullally prepares a tray of supplies at the Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver, B.C. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS). Keven Drews, The Canadian Press.