News Items tag as: Naloxone kits

Second annual Overdose Awareness Day set to go at Riverside Park
August 30, 2017 - 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - Reducing stigma and breaking down barriers for people dealing with drug addiction are the goals of International Overdose Awareness Day in Kamloops tomorrow.
Naloxone kits could be coming to secondary schools in the Central Okanagan
June 09, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - Should potentially life-saving, overdose-reversing drugs be kept on hand in Central Okanagan secondary schools? That's the question school board trustees are wrestling with right now.
Overdose deaths isn't the only way to measure the Interior's opioid crisis
April 19, 2017 - 9:00 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Thousands of phone calls to 911 and hundreds of emergency room visits are showing a different side to the deadly fentanyl crisis sweeping across the province and the interior.
March third-highest month for illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C.
April 19, 2017 - 11:36 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - People across the province continue to die at an alarming rate due to illicit drug overdoses, according to new numbers from the B.C. Coroners Service.
Sun Peaks being proactive about drug use at Snowbombing music festival
April 06, 2017 - 4:30 PM

SUN PEAKS - Thousands of people are convening on Sun Peaks near Kamloops for Snowbombing 2017, a popular European music festival being held this week for the first time in North America.
Dangers of opioid addiction to be discussed at TRU fentanyl forum
March 23, 2017 - 11:36 AM

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops doctor is teaming up with members of the community to answer a question B.C. residents have been asking for the past two years: What the Fentanyl?
Naloxone training begins for staff at Kamloops schools
March 03, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - Staff officials with School District 73 have officially begun naloxone training.
Fentanyl overdose drugs are free but others needing life-saving medicine are on their own
February 28, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - B.C. made a health care decision to provide naloxone kits for free in response to the fentanyl and overdose emergency gripping the province, but it has also alienated other people, such as allergy sufferers and some diabetics who need medications to survive and have to pay their own way.
'You get used to it:' Reversing overdoses becoming routine at Vernon non-profit
February 01, 2017 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - The first time she had to grab a naloxone kit to revive someone overdosing at the Upper Room Mission, Lisa Anderson was shaking with nerves.
Kamloops overdose prevention services are already saving lives
December 23, 2016 - 2:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - After being open for less than a week, the new overdose prevention sites in Kamloops have already helped save lives.
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Popular spots to enjoy ramen in Okanagan, Kamloops
Fall is here and the weather is turning colder so many are turning to comfort foods in the Okanagan and Kamloops. A warm, hearty soup is a definite go-to during the chilly seasons and one particular style, ramen, is becoming more and more p

Study says city policies drastically increase housing costs in Kamloops, Okanagan
A research paper explored how municipal government policies increase the cost of housing in B.C., and it showed that 40 per cent of a home’s cost in Kamloops and the Okanagan was due to the “zoning effect”. While at Simon

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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