Interior Health has issued an alert for the Williams Lake area of potential drug poisoning and overdose.
They said in a release that the city has seen multiple drug poisoning all related to down or fentanyl use.
Interior Health added steps to take to prevent an overdose, which includes drug use for smoking, snorting, and injecting.
The steps include:
- Get your drugs checked – find locations at drugchecking.ca
- Be aware of increased risk if mixing with other drugs, including
alcohol - Use with others around
- Start with a small amount and space out your doses
- Carry naloxone and know how use it
- Get the LifeGuard App – lifeguarddh.com
- Call 211 or visit bc211.ca to find services near you
The alert will remain in effect until October 17th, and during that time Interior Health will be figuring out the specific cause.
“What we are doing is testing the actual drug that’s in Williams Lake, so we could go past the drug alert end date.” says Medical Health Officer Stephane Trepanier.
“We need to know more specifically what’s in the drug and what’s more problematic in relation to the recent overdoses.”
Trepanier added that they don’t want to keep the alerts up too long, but if they have other overdoses, then the alert could continue.
The full alert can be found on Interior Health’s website here.
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