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this person.’ You don’t think twice.” But the Naloxone doesn’t always take. “We have days where we lose people, so that’s a toll. Generally, 99 per cent of them, they come back.” Roughly 250 Lookout staff in the Lower Mainland are trained to administer the overdose antidote and so far, it’s been used about 70 times by the non-profit. Of those, 40 or so were in Surrey. There’s been an issue with street drugs being laced with Fentanyl in Surrey, said Darin Froese, director of operations for Lookout Emergency Aid Society, which runs the emergency Gateway Shelter and the Front Room. Fentanyl, he explained, is a synthetic narcotic that’s 50 to 100 times more toxic than other opioids. Froese estimated the organization has seen a 50-per-cent increase in incidents over the last six months or so, due to local street drugs being laced with the potent drug. “In some cases, we’ve had three or four overdoses in one day,” he added. “Obviously there’s a bad batch of drugs on the street.” Darin Froese, director of operations for Lookout Emergency Aid Society, holds a Narcan kit used to treat those having overdoses from Fentanyl, a potent drug that’s being laced into other narcotics on the see › page 8 streets of Whalley and other parts of Metro Vancouver. (Photo: AMY REID) 7091640
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