“He’s a young man who took a pill and fell asleep on a park bench”, said Mark Bodie, Jack’s dad.
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According to Vancouver police, the pair purchased and consumed green pills with the number 80 on them, believing them to be Oxycontin.
Many police departments, including Vancouver, North Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford and Coquitlam, have already issued public safety warning about its prevalence this year.
In February, the BCCDC, RCMP and Vancouver police launched a wider public awareness campaign intended to educate users about fentanyl-related overdoses and recommend prevention strategies. The couple, aged 31 and 30, left behind a two-year-old son. Police are reminding everyone fentanyl can be found in many forms and is often mixed with other drugs.
McLintock said there were 10 deaths caused by drug overdoses in B.C. over the long weekend; toxicology test are underway to determine their cause. Geoff Harder said in a media release.
“If it’s a street drug, you don’t know what’s in them”. Earlier in the week, the BC Coroners Service confirmed that fentanyl played a part in the deaths of Hardy and Amelia Leighton, whose bodies were discovered in their Vancouver home on July 20. He has been taken off life support and has died. His friend recovered and was released from hospital.
The Vancouver Police Department said the 16 and 17-year-old boys were found unconscious in Shelley Park in Vancouver.
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Police in North Vancouver say a man is dead following an apparent overdose of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, but the B.C. Coroner’s office says fentanyl may not have been involved in this particular case. A relative found the man in distress and called police, but he died at the scene.
