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Health authority says it will try to retrieve more syringes from Kelowna needle exchange program
COMPLAINTS ABOUT DISCARDED SYRINGES ON THE RISE KELOWNA – The Interior Health Authority has promised…
Overdose deaths in B.C. up 88 per cent this year
FENTANYL INCREASING AS CULPRIT IN DEATHS BRITISH COLUMBIA – The B.C. Coroners Service says there…
Kelowna council to hear from Interior Health about safe injection site proposal
KELOWNA – With overdose deaths soaring in the city, Dr. Trevor Corneil, senior medical health…
A drug 100 times stronger than fentanyl is in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A synthetic opioid nearly 100 times more potent than fentanyl has shown up…
B.C. Health Minister predicts record drug overdose deaths this year
VICTORIA – British Columbia's health minister says he's hopeful the rate of drug overdose deaths…
Two illicit drug overdose deaths in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Police and the coroner are investigating two illicit drug overdose deaths in Kamloops…
No firm date for overdose tracking system for Interior Health
PROVINCE DECLARED PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN MID APRIL THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Interior Health is still working…
Health minister warns about fentanyl overdoses in Kamloops today
KAMLOOPS – Provincial health minister Terry Lake is warning illicit drug users in Kamloops after…
Overdose deaths could stay high in Southern Interior
NUMBERS LIKELY TO GO UP BEFORE THEY GO DOWN THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Don’t expect the epidemic…
The B.C. Interior is on pace to smash last year’s record number of overdose deaths
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Overdose deaths in the Interior Health Authority, already at a record number after…
Local group trying to bring new youth mental health facility to Kelowna
KELOWNA – A local mother whose son overdosed on pure fentanyl will be speaking at…
Premier says no plans to track deadly surge in B.C. drug overdoses
OVERDOSE DEATHS UP 40 PER CENT IN KELOWNA, 50 PER CENT IN VERNON LAST YEAR…
More Interior Health beds coming to help people recover from substance use
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – By this time next year, the Interior Health Authority expects to distribute 73…
Coroner confirms teen who thought she was taking ecstasy in 2013 overdosed on heroin
KELOWNA – A young Kelowna woman who died in 2013 after taking what she thought…
No real time data on deadly drug overdoses but that could change
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – With overdose deaths from illicit drugs becoming a more frequent occurrence across Canada,…