By Josh Sigurdson
Apr 5, 2021 6:40 AM
St. John Ambulance has announced it is partnering with Health Canada to help reduce opioid-related deaths across the country.
The new programs are aimed at providing more people with Naloxone kits, increasing the survival rate of someone overdosing.
Spokesperson Kevin McGowan said these programs are desperately needed right now.
“Obviously, the crisis has been coming in waves, and just increasing and get worse and worse over the last five or ten years,” said McGowan. “This is an absolute critical time for us to have a project like this, and help Canada recognize that, and ask St. John Ambulance to attack pretty quickly.”