Suspected overdose death in Sackville Friday; advocates call for harm reduction, safe supply
A young man died Friday night in Sackville from a suspected overdose.
The Southeast District RCMP responded to a 911 call just before midnight on Friday, and upon arriving at Uncle Larry’s bar on Main Street in Sackville, found a 24-year-old male with no pulse. Corporal Brian Villers said he could not confirm the exact cause of death until an autopsy was completed, but it appeared to be due to an overdose.
Villers says this is the only sudden death reported to the Sackville detachment recently that is suspected of being an overdose. However, support workers have reported a string of overdoses in nearby Moncton recently, all seemingly connected to a similar substance.
High risk synthetic opioid in circulation
Debby Warren is the executive director of Ensemble Moncton, an organization which specializes in harm reduction for people using drugs and suffering from addiction. Warren says there is a dangerous supply of a synthetic opioid pills called Shady 8s circulating in the region. The pills get their name from the pharmaceutical-grade pill they are manufactured to imitate, Dilaudid 8.
Warren says she knows of six recent overdoses in Moncton all connected to a similar substance, all in people who survived with the help of a drug called Naloxone and having people nearby to administer it.… Continue