As the overdose crisis enters its third year in B.C., people are continuing to die at an alarming rate from fatal overdoses.

KELOWNA – If a system that’s already in place across B.C. had been used, Helen Jennens' sons might still be alive.

After another year of ghastly overdose statistics for the Interior Health Authority in 2017, the chief medical health officers says about the best we can hope for next year is that all the measures put in place this year to combat the crisis finally bear some fruit.

VERNON - A judge noted the high death toll from drug overdoses in the Vernon community as he sentenced a local man for dealing a mix of heroin and fentanyl.

THOMPSON OKANAGAN - After nine fatal overdoses in the Interior Health region, an overdose warning remains in place for all drug users.

The overdose crisis in B.C. has reached new, devastating heights.

KAMLOOPS - In the past two years, outreach and addictions services have increased across the Southern Interior with more deaths being attributed to the overdose crisis across the province.

As more people across the province succumb to the ongoing opioid crisis, the number of overdose patients presenting at Interior hospitals is reaching unprecedented levels.

PENTICTON - The severity of the region’s opioid crisis was brought home to regional directors this afternoon.

Fentanyl has claimed more than 100 lives in the Okanagan so far this year.