More than 1,200 people have died from suspected or confirmed overdoses in Saskatchewan since the beginning of 2020. A CBC Saskatchewan project shares the faces and names of many of those we lost during those three years, taking the conversation beyond statistics and stereotypes.
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Saskatoon / 650 CKOM
Mar 11, 2021 6:01 PM
Possibilities Recovery Centre Inc. said it has been denied funding from the province twice, and are concerned the province doesn t see the full scope of the ongoing crisis. (supplied/Possibilities Recovery Centre Inc.)
A Saskatoon recovery centre is worried that its rejection for provincial funding is sending the wrong message in regards to the ongoing overdose crisis.
Tanner Perratt, the co-founder and business manager for Possibilities Recovery Centre Inc., said he has made two formal requests to the province for funding, with both receiving rejection letters over the past year. Perratt provided the rejection letters from the province to 650 CKOM.
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Mar 7, 2021 2:47 PM
Damon Grant would have been celebrating his 49th birthday Sunday, but his family lost him to an overdose in January. (submitted/Janelle Kincaid)
Damon Grant would have been celebrating his 49th birthday Sunday.
Instead, his family now sits with only memories of the Weyburn man. The former nurse’s aide injured his back in 2000 on the job, leading to an addictions cycle that saw him struggle with the use of hydromorphones, fentanyl, fentanyl patches and, in the end, anything he could get his hands on.
Grant’s wife, Janelle Kincaid, said he was one of the 36 deaths in that first calendar month.