Safe injection site sees third overdose in a week Jan 17, 2017 2:33 PM

NANAIMO — For the third time in a week, staff at Nanaimo’s pop-up drug consumption site say their service has saved a life.

Paramedics arrived at Onsite in the City Hall parking lot at approximately 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to treat a man who had overdosed.

Jeremy Kalicum, who volunteers at Onsite, said though the man is recovering, the incident could have had a much darker outcome.

“He was saying they were this close to going back home and using…they would have gone back home, overdosed, been hesitant to call the paramedics and this man would have quite possibly died. I just thank God we had the supplies here and we had this facility here to essentially save this man’s life,” he said.