Anna Pacik, Communications Manager at Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living, says if their staff didn’t have Naloxone training, they’d have seven dead people at the facility. A guest resident in Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living independent tower alerted staff that six people were overdosing and staff rushed to help. Pacik says at the same time there was […]
A total of nine overdoses have taken place in Saskatoon since September 8th, five of which took place within a 30 hour period on Friday and Saturday. Out of the five on the weekend, one resulted in the death of a woman according to Superintendant Dave Haye. Haye reminds about the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose […]
(Photo supplied by the Canadian Press) REGINA — A mother whose son died of a fentanyl overdose wants the Regina Police Service to equip all front-line officers with the life-saving antidote naloxone. Jenny Churchill’s 30-year-old son, Jordan, was pronounced dead in hospital on Jan. 27, 2018. She says her son, who grew up playing hockey and […]
