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Fentanyl
SURVIVING FENTANYL: Overdose survivor shares his story of despair and recovery
KAMLOOPS – The last thing Dayton Wilson remembers on Sept. 1, 2016, was shopping at…
Kelowna suspects arrested for importing and selling fentanyl around the world
KELOWNA – A Kelowna couple have been arrested for allegedly running an international fentanyl trafficking…
Kamloops RCMP task force bust drug traffickers on North Shore
KAMLOOPS – Five men have a December court date thanks to a two-day crackdown on…
North Okanagan men share how they kicked their addictions
"I WAS OUT THERE DYING ON THE STREETS OF KELOWNA" VERNON – Jacob Philp knows…
Okanagan doctor’s office warns of fentanyl-laced marijuana, but is it true?
PENTICTON – Social media has erupted this week after someone posted a photo from a…
More people in Kelowna hospitalized for opiate overdoses than any other Canadian city
KELOWNA – A new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information puts Kelowna way…
Kelowna’s mobile overdose prevention unit gets high tech gift
KELOWNA – The people using the mobile overdose prevention in unit will be able to…
Inaugural Kelowna event planned to remember overdose victims
KELOWNA – The first International Overdose Awareness Day is being held later this month, as…
Overdose crisis a top priority for B.C.’s new Mental Health and Addictions Minister
For the first time in 16 years, there’s a new political party in power for…
Illicit drug overdose deaths in the province continue to rise
The number of illicit drug overdose deaths in the province has had a sharp increase…
Mothers of Okanagan fentanyl victims get Drug Overdose Awareness Day
KELOWNA – The mom of a Kelowna man who died of fentanyl overdose has gotten…
Supervised drug consumption approved for Kamloops and Kelowna
Kamloops and Kelowna are taking another step forward in the fight against the opioid overdose…
Kamloops doctors open addictions clinic to battle overdoses
KAMLOOPS – In the midst of climbing overdose deaths in the province, a group of…
Overdoses claimed 129 lives in B.C. last month
Last month illicit drug overdose deaths dropped slightly, but since May of 2016, deaths in…
REVIVED: Kamloops woman saved from opioid overdose gets second chance
"We found you on the sidewalk," the paramedics told Jen as she came to. "You…
Overdose deaths up 50 per cent in Okanagan this year
OKANAGAN – Interior Health is warning Okanagan drug users about the lethal effects of their…
Naloxone kits could be coming to secondary schools in the Central Okanagan
KELOWNA – Should potentially life-saving, overdose-reversing drugs be kept on hand in Central Okanagan secondary…
Mobile overdose prevention bus opens its doors in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Local drug outreach services just got a boost today with the opening of…
April worst month so far for 2017 drug overdose deaths in B.C.
The number of suspected drug overdose deaths in April measures out to roughly four lives…
Drug checks at B.C. supervised injection site found 80 per cent contained fentanyl
A pilot project to test street drugs for fentanyl at the Vancouver safe injection centre…
Overdose prevention bus rolls into Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – At first glance it looks like a run-of-the mill recreational vehicle, but it’s…
Court case alleges heroin mixed with fentanyl, methylfentanyl was dealt in Vernon
VERNON – A man accused of trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl and methylfentanyl won’t have…
Dealer caught in Vernon drug investigation gets six months
VERNON – A drug dealer nabbed in an undercover investigation last November was sentenced to…
Vernon Jubilee Hospital recorded the highest number of overdoses in the region — this could be why
VERNON – Staff at Vernon Jubilee Hospital recorded more drug overdoses than their counterparts in…