US EditionPortrayal of Pandora Prompts Response From Politicians
- Politicians, non-profit leaders, and officials responded this week to a fentanyl crisis centered around the 900-block of Pandora Avenue in Victoria, B.C., noted as a large open-air drug market.
- The response followed reports highlighting widespread fentanyl use causing deaths and visible impacts like violence, trash, and semi-conscious individuals covering the encampment on Pandora.
- Authorities have reduced the encampment from about 100 people last year to roughly 19 currently by opening 54 supportive housing units on Burnside Road East and planning additional developments by 2027.
- A study reported in Pediatrics found fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than morphine, caused a 168% increase in deaths among 15- to 24-year-olds between 2018 and 2022, with 4.3 deaths per 100,000 involving fentanyl alone in 2022.
- The situation suggests continued efforts are needed to address this health crisis through housing, harm reduction tools, education, and tailored strategies targeting youth drug use to prevent further overdose deaths.
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Portrayal of Pandora prompts response from politicians
Politicians and non-profit leaders responded this week to a national story pointing to Pandora Avenue in Victoria as one of the largest open-air drug markets in Western Canada. The Globe and Mail feature on fentanyl - the opioid responsible for most drug deaths in B.C. - painted the 900-block of Pan...
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Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is destroying American society at an unprecedented rate. More than 70,000 Americans die each year, and almost 300 families fall into despair every day. To many people, this seems to be just part of the drug epidemic, but the truth is far more than that - this is a war without gunpowder. A totalitarian regime is using drugs as a weapon to poison the United States and weaken the West. …
Within the framework of the investigation carried out by the death of 33 people as a result of a batch of contaminated fentanyl, the federal judge of La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak, ordered the simultaneous break-in of three laboratories and two drugstores that distributed the medication in bad condition. These are the HLB Pharma and Ramallo Laboratories. In addition, the magistrate ordered a new requisition of these two establishments, after the one…
A health tragedy ignited the alarms in the country and exposed a chain of failures in the production and distribution of medicines. The discovery of contaminated fentanyl, a powerful opioid of hospital use, caused a wave of serious hospitalizations and, so far, 33 deaths in hospitals in Buenos Aires and Rosario. What began as a clinical suspicion became a powerful judicial cause, with laboratories and drugstores under the magnifying glass. The c…
Federal Court No. 3 of La Plata instructed operatives in the establishments that sold the opioid to different health centers, as well as new procedures at HLB Pharma Group and Ramallo.
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