Three overdoses in Surrey, one fatal, in less than an hour
Posted February 18, 2021 1:25 pm.
Last Updated February 18, 2021 9:27 pm.
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Mounties in Surrey are warning about a potentially lethal batch of drugs in the community after a number of overdoses early Thursday morning, one of which was fatal.
Officers were called to a home just after 2 a.m. near 106 Ave. and 140 St. Paramedics tried to save a 46-year-old woman, but she died.
Half an hour later, RCMP were called out to a shelter in the City Centre area, where two people overdosed after injecting the same unknown drug. Both were given Narcan by the shelter staff and came to. They were taken to hospital.
“Unfortunately, none of the bystanders were willing to provide us information on the source or the type of drugs that were used,” Sgt. Elenore Sturko said.
Mounties in Surrey are warning about a potentially lethal batch of drugs in the community after a number of overdoses early Thursday morning, one of which was fatal. https://t.co/noprM6faRK pic.twitter.com/HqHeXNWr7j
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She says it’s possible there is a deadly batch of drugs circulating in Surrey.
“Unfortunately, one of the realities of having a supply in the city of illicit drugs is that there is a possibility at any given time that there can be batches that are mixed, that contain lethal doses of the actual drugs in them,” Sturko said.
“It’s not like it’s being made in a pharmaceutical industry lab under conditions that are designed for safety. Some of the doses that we see are completely random or they are being manufactured in kitchens and clandestine labs,” she added.
2020 was the worst year ever for overdoses in B.C., with 1,760 deaths. That was a 74 per cent jump from 2019.
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With files from Ria Reneuf