B.C. to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day with events in Vancouver and New Westminster
Speakers there are scheduled to include Nichola Hall of From Grief to Action, a group that was instrumental in Vancouver’s response to a spike in overdoses the city struggled with in the 1990s. Another is Darwin Fisher, who manages North America’s first sanctioned supervised-injection facility, Insite. A third is Libby Davies, who was an NDP MP representing Vancouver East for 18 years until 2015.
The original article, B.C. to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day with events in Vancouver and New Westminster was published on August 30, 2017 in . Author(s): Travis Lupick