News Items tag as: opioid crisis

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.
B.C. Coroner recommends much closer regulation, control of drug treatment centres during opioid crisis
April 05, 2018 - 2:31 PM

Closer regulation and control of drug and alcohol recovery houses and rehabilitation centres, as well as proof that they actually work, is one of the key recommendations from the B.C. Coroners Service death review panel of the opioid crisis.
Public warned of possible presence of powerful opioid carfentanil in Vernon
March 16, 2018 - 2:12 PM

VERNON - Drug users are being warned about the possible presence of the potent opioid carfentanil in Vernon.
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