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WEYBURN Slim and close-shaven with deep-set green eyes that reflect a struggle beyond his years, the middle-aged man describes the “sickness” that made him leave his home and head 90 minutes north to Regina.
It was the day after Christmas. He went to the inner city, to find the fentanyl needed to get, in his words, “un-sick.”
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“If there’s nothing around Weyburn, we have to resort to getting it in Regina, which has its own challenges … there’s the possibility of getting burned.”
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WEYBURN The first month of the new year didn’t leave Weyburn police members with much to celebrate; just a hard reminder of that city’s drug overdose issues.
Three men overdosed on fentanyl in 36 hours. Two died. One was revived with a naloxone shot, but he didn’t want any other help.
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Chief Jamie Blunden says those mid-month drug calls were small glimpses of a larger, glaring issue in Weyburn: Overdoses from hard drugs have a strong hold on the southeast Saskatchewan city.
“My grief is still hard, because he s gone and he s always going to be gone.
Author of the article: Evan Radford
Publishing date: Feb 18, 2021 • February 18, 2021 • 6 minute read • Esther Green holds one of the remaining mementos she has of her late son Jeff Snyder, who died of a drug overdose in 2014, on Feb. 15, 2021 near the creek in Swift Current, Sask. on her homestead. (David Zammit for the Regina Leader-Post) Photo by DZammitphotography /jpg
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If Saskatchewan is in a downward drug addiction spiral, then Esther Green has witnessed firsthand the worst of the pain it spits out two sons hooked on fentanyl, one dead from an overdose, another sitting on remand in jail for drug charges.