News Items tag as: opioid crisis

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.
Fatal overdose numbers in the Interior on par with last year: Interior Health
March 12, 2018 - 9:00 PM

As the overdose crisis enters its third year in B.C., people are continuing to die at an alarming rate from fatal overdoses.
Kelowna mom who lost two sons to overdose calls for mandatory prescription tracking
February 22, 2018 - 9:00 PM

KELOWNA – If a system that’s already in place across B.C. had been used, Helen Jennens' sons might still be alive.
Community groups to decide how best to spend up to $100,000 in funding for overdose response in Vernon
February 05, 2018 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - People with lived experience in the opioid overdose crisis will be among those involved in a new community driven response to the deadly epidemic in Vernon.
Chief medical health officer faces grim 2017 overdose numbers for Interior Health
February 01, 2018 - 5:30 PM

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.
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