Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is joining other health authorities in the province in a move to a unified provincial text alert system warning of toxic drugs.
Vancouver began its own system called Radar in 2017, while a toxic drug and health alert system developed by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control has been adopted by all other health districts in the last year.
Those who want to get the alerts need to text the word “join” to 253787, and VCH says in a statement that anyone who receives the Radar messages will be automatically added to the province-wide alert for toxic drugs.
Jennifer Whiteside, minister of mental health and addictions, says updating the toxic
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