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Old Posted Apr 20, 2017, 4:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Hali87 View Post
I've been trying to get a Naloxone kit for weeks now but they're not widely available in NS yet. Fentanyl is a fairly well-known "thing" among 20-somethings here at this point although there haven't been many cases of it turning up. Still, people are bracing for when it finally hits. A friend of mine who grew up in Boston knew five people back in Massachusetts who OD's and I briefly dated a girl from Vancouver who knew over 20 people who'd died from it.

I'm not old enough to remember when AIDS first hit, but Fentanyl seems like this generation's version of that, in a way.
Thanks for the stats link. Someone said it's a lifestyle choice but I suspect that a number of these fentanyl deaths are people who were not living the lifestyle one would associate with a drug overdose death - one poor decision at a bar or party or whatever does not equate to a certain lifestyle.
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