Leaked internal planning documents from Island Health show that the health authority had planned to open overdose prevention centres (OPC) at three Vancouver Island hospitals — with one site to be implemented in the summer of 2024 and the others soon after.

But all work stopped in April "on government direction," the documents say. 

It came at the same time that B.C. announced it was rolling back its decriminalization pilot in the wake of concerns, including among health-care workers, about illic…