News Items tag as: opioid crisis

Vernon drug checking service wants you to 'know what's in your dope'
November 09, 2018 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - With a toothpick, the outreach worker picks up a few sand-sized specks from a tiny envelope filled with a white substance. She then swishes the toothpick in a small plastic cup and dips a test strip in. A pair of red lines emerge on the strip, indicating there is no fentanyl in the substance.
Intensive Interior Health drug treatment program has dozens of success stories
October 30, 2018 - 5:30 PM

A total of 63 people with drug users problems have completed the Intensive Day Treatment Program that was created a few years ago in Kamloops but expanded in June to three Okanagan cities.
Kamloops addiction centre wants to hear from more drug users
September 27, 2018 - 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops addiction treatment centre is halfway to their goal of collecting 300 surveys from previous and current drug users, but already organizers are seeing a theme.
Why a Kelowna man with no record got federal prison time for drug trafficking
September 18, 2018 - 8:30 PM

KELOWNA - A young Kelowna drug dealer was hit with federal prison time last month, continuing a pattern of heavy sentences for fentanyl dealers.
North Okanagan man launches needle buyback scheme from back of minivan
August 22, 2018 - 2:03 PM

VERNON - Inspired by a similar initiative in Kamloops, a Spallumcheen resident has launched a needle buyback scheme in Vernon run from the back of his minivan.
Former baseball hopeful developed addiction after sports surgery; convicted for drug trafficking in North Okanagan
August 21, 2018 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - A former baseball player with a scholarship to a U.S. college was handed a six-month jail sentence today on one charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
Needle drop box installed in front of Vernon home was in the 'wrong spot'
August 16, 2018 - 3:58 PM

VERNON - Within hours of the city installing its first 24-hour needle drop box plans are already afoot to move it a few hundred metres down the street.
VIDEO: Kamloops needle buyback program helps protect addicts' privacy
August 16, 2018 - 1:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - What started off as an initiative to clean up used sharps and needles from the streets of Kamloops has turned into a bigger project for the founders of the city's first needle buyback program.
Kamloops council concerned with Interior Health hesitancy to support needle buyback
August 15, 2018 - 12:49 PM

KAMLOOPS - Interior Health's lack of support for needle buyback programs was a hot topic of debate at Kamloops city council yesterday.
Overdose death rate holding steady within Interior Health Authority
June 07, 2018 - 3:21 PM

Deaths from suspected fatal illicit drug overdoses across the province were down 23 per cent in April from the month before, according to the latest numbers from the B.C. Coroners Service.
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