Fentanyl

CHARBONNEAU – No celebration of the fentanyl drug culture this Halloween

October 17, 2024 // 4 Comments

NO ONE WILL BE dressing up as a fentanyl user this Halloween. There will be the usual pretend-scary skeletons, ghosts and gravestones but the truly macabre: the hollowed-out [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Forget hydromorphone, give them fentanyl

May 20, 2023 // 3 Comments

CANADA’S SAFER SUPPLY program is a good idea but the drug they hand out isn’t what users want. On the positive side, it does provide users with a safer alternative to [Continue]

POLICE – Mom of 11-month-old finds suspected fentanyl stash in park

July 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

An alert mom saved her 11-month-old tot from harm Sunday after the child found a small container of suspected drugs while playing at McDonald Park. She took it away from the [Continue]

GINTA – We need to eliminate the drug stigma and punish the dealers

June 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE is without a doubt the death of their child. More so when the death was preventable. My eldest mentioned on Friday a teenager in Kamloops had [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why drug consumption sites for kids are not so outrageous

November 20, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SAFE DRUG-CONSUMPTION sites for kids? Has B.C.’s drug problem gotten so out of hand that we now have to provide children with a place to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Ordinary people, not politicians, will solve the opioid crisis

August 8, 2018 // 3 Comments

EVERY ONE OF US knows at least one person who has died from a drug overdose in the last few years. A co-worker. A friend’s brother-in-law. A son of another co-worker. A [Continue]