The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has said between 20, there were at least 655 deaths in which fentanyl was the cause or the contributing cause. Late last month, eight people in the Victoria, British Columbia area, all known drug users, fatally overdosed, with officials pointing the finger at a bad batch drugs that included methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl.
It's a campaign that has become all the more acute this year, amid a rash of fentanyl overdoses in Canada that has shown no signs of abating. Right now, only people with opiate prescriptions can access naloxone in Canada, although a number of cities and provinces have made kits with the antidote available to those individuals. One of the mothers' main goals: to convince the federal health agency to relax access to naloxone, a substance that experts says is an antidote for opioids because it can reverse overdoses caused by them. She's part of mumsDU, a group of mothers who travel across Canada raising awareness of substance abuse issues, especially fentanyl, a powerful opiate that gained prominence as Ox圜ontin fell out of favor. Her mother, Donna May, tells that story about Jac (who is pictured above) every chance she gets now.
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