News Items tag as: opioid crisis

B.C. overdose deaths would be twice as high without harm reduction services
June 05, 2019 - 2:00 PM

Research by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control suggests that 3,000 possible overdose deaths were prevented in a 20-month period by B.C.’s harm reduction services.
RCMP staying mum on decriminalizing illegal drug users
April 27, 2019 - 7:00 AM

KELOWNA - Calls to cut overdose deaths by decriminalizing people using illegal drugs appear to have fallen on fallow ground.
Jail is no place for drug users, B.C. health officer says
April 24, 2019 - 11:15 AM

KELOWNA - It’s time to stop throwing people in jail for doing drugs, B.C.’s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry contends in a new report to the provincial government.
Interior Health issues overdose alert
March 29, 2019 - 10:17 AM

KELOWNA - Deadly doses of carfentanil have hit the Interior Health region hard this month so authorities are warning people not to use illicit drugs.
Travelling candle display to raise awareness about overdose deaths in Interior
March 26, 2019 - 1:30 PM

The Interior Health Authority is recognizing the lives lost in the illicit drug overdose crisis with a travelling candle display next month.
Vernon council approves daily needle clean-up program
February 11, 2019 - 3:24 PM

Vernon – Vernon city council has endorsed a pilot program for the daily clean-up of used needles.
Opioid replacement therapy just one of the tools Interior Health uses to save lives
February 08, 2019 - 3:35 PM

KELOWNA - Andrew Leaking is living proof that programs to help drug addicted homeless people really do save lives.
Illicit overdose deaths up last year in Kamloops, slight dip in Okanagan
February 07, 2019 - 2:27 PM

The Okanagan maintained its dubious distinction as having one of the highest illicit drug overdose death rates in the province for 2018, despite lowering the number from 2017.
Overdose prevention site set for Vernon, but details vague
January 23, 2019 - 12:15 PM

VERNON - Interior Health is bringing an overdose prevention site to Vernon, but the where, when and cost are still up in the air.
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.
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Distinctive stolen truck with sentimental value returned to Kamloops owner
KAMLOOPS — A distinctive pickup truck stolen from a Valleyview auto shop has been reunited with its owner. Dustin Thomas turned to Facebook on Sunday, June 9, when he realized his truck had been stolen from Active Care Auto. The post