App aims to save lives as pandemic isolates drug users

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Dr. Kling also attributes the messaging from public health officials to stay home and isolate as a contributing factor to people using at home alone.

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Jordan Harris, Executive Director at the POUNDS Project says, “Social distancing can create some feelings of depression and isolation and so those might exacerbate some things that people are already experiencing.”

Although social and physical distancing measures will continue for the time, there are ways that people can use more safely if they know they will be alone.

Vancouver-based LifeGuard Health developed an app that monitors users, who voluntarily enter information about what they are taking. The app, which was recently updated to allow for a longer duration, alerts BC emergency services if the user becomes unresponsive.

LifeGuard CEO Jeff Hardy says, “we recommend that if you are using alone obviously have a real person there, but if not the LifeGuard app will act as your buddy.”

Hardy emphasizes that alerts from the app are not sent to the RCMP or local police. He says, “because most people, if not all people are trying to stay anonymous. They really do not want the police to be involved.”