Drug addiction

DRUGS – Interior Health issues drug poisoning overdose alert for Kamloops

September 20, 2024 // 3 Comments

A toxic drug alert has been issued for Kamloops and the surrounding area. Interior Health issued the alert today (Sept. 20, 2024), saying it was “due to increased fatal [Continue]

DRUG ADDICTIONS – Eby announces plans for involuntary treatment centres

September 15, 2024 // 8 Comments

“Highly secure” facilities will be opened where people with long-term mental and health and addiction challenges get involuntary treatment, Premier David Eby [Continue]

MILOBAR – NDP’s soft-on-crime policies to blame for increase in gang violence

May 18, 2024 // 3 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson ACROSS BRITISH COLUMBIA, communities are facing an unprecedented crisis of gang violence that the NDP government seems unwilling [Continue]

FIRBY – Decriminalization has proven it won’t solve Canada’s drug crisis

May 11, 2024 // 5 Comments

CANADIAN CITIES must do something to curb the alarming rate of deaths from lethal drugs like heroin, fentanyl, cocaine or methamphetamine. But the solution, if one is even [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’

May 9, 2024 // 7 Comments

ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]

POLICE – Newest shooting believed part of conflict between drug traffickers

May 4, 2024 // 1 Comment

Kamloops RCMP are asking the public to be on the lookout as officers investigate this weekend’s most recent shooting report. This morning (Saturday May 4, 2024), around [Continue]