It's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.
The health minister says fentanyl appears to be playing a central role in the increase of deaths.
"Once you start it, there's no stopping.''
“I don’t think we’ve come anywhere near the peak of this yet.”
"This really is a disaster"
The kit contains naloxone, which is used as an opioid overdose treatment in emergency departments.
There were 145 fentanyl-related deaths in Calgary last year.
Fentanyl stole from me, from my family and from countless others across Canada. I've had items stolen from me before. In high school, someone broke into my locker and took my iPod. I remember my mom telling me, "Life goes on." Last year, someone stole funds from my bank account. Life goes on. Sometimes, though, it doesn't. On February 28, 2015, my older brother took what he thought was an Oxycontin tablet while he was out partying. He went home, he went to bed and he never woke up.
Calgary teen Anthony Hampton was paralyzed and left with serious brain damage after unknowingly taking fentanyl.
"Awareness has got to be part of the solution to this horrible thing."
"He's not what we could consider, in our mind's eye, the typical overdose."
Fentanyl is a potentially deadly synthetic narcotic that is up to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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