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Harm reduction workers struggle to deal with emotional toll of fentanyl crisis

December 5th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

front-line-2“Mondays are a little bit terrifying for us at this point because we come into the office and everybody has a sense of dread. Are we going to come back to the news that we lost somebody over the weekend?”

Harm reduction workers in the B.C. Interior say the fentanyl crisis is taking a huge emotional toll on them as they lose more and more clients to drug overdoses. Fentanyl overdose deaths continue to climb across Canada, and now kill more Canadians than car crashes, according to recent coroner’s reports.  Read the rest of this article at CBC…

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