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Naloxone Kits
Second annual Overdose Awareness Day set to go at Riverside Park
KAMLOOPS – Reducing stigma and breaking down barriers for people dealing with drug addiction are…
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…
Overdose deaths isn’t the only way to measure the Interior’s opioid crisis
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Thousands of phone calls to 911 and hundreds of emergency room visits are…
March third-highest month for illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C.
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – People across the province continue to die at an alarming rate due to…
Sun Peaks being proactive about drug use at Snowbombing music festival
SUN PEAKS – Thousands of people are convening on Sun Peaks near Kamloops for Snowbombing…
Dangers of opioid addiction to be discussed at TRU fentanyl forum
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops doctor is teaming up with members of the community to answer…
Fentanyl overdose drugs are free but others needing life-saving medicine are on their own
KELOWNA – B.C. made a health care decision to provide naloxone kits for free in…
Naloxone training begins for staff at Kamloops schools
KAMLOOPS – Staff officials with School District 73 have officially begun naloxone training. Director of…
‘You get used to it:’ Reversing overdoses becoming routine at Vernon non-profit
VERNON – The first time she had to grab a naloxone kit to revive someone…
Kamloops overdose prevention services are already saving lives
KAMLOOPS – After being open for less than a week, the new overdose prevention sites…
How high schools in the Interior are doing their part to combat the fentanyl crisis
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – The fentanyl crisis has taken its toll on B.C. and deaths from fentanyl…
How B.C.’s fentanyl crisis is affecting the safety of prisoners, guards
NANAIMO SHERIFF TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER EXPOSURE TO DRUG THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – B.C.’s fentanyl crisis is…
Kamloops nightclub joins the battle against the fentanyl crisis
'IT'S SOMETHING WE SEE EVERY DAY' KAMLOOPS – The overdose death of Edmond Paul Adkin…
Kamloops pharmacists say naloxone should be free for everyone, not just addicts
'I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE ONE THING THAT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE.' KAMLOOPS – Cory…
Naloxone program expands across Southern Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – More than 70 new sites in the Southern Interior are now able to…