COVID-19 pandemic.Just last Friday night, paramedics were called out to an emergency at a suburban home.When they arrived, they were met by a shocking scene.
Five people were unconscious, supposedly from a natural gas leak.But first responders quickly determined that no gas was leaking.
The five victims had succumbed to an overdose of toxic drugs. Four arrests after homelessness, anti-police brutality activists occupy Vancouver intersection Amazingly, police, paramedics and firefighters were able to revive all five by administering heavy doses of naloxone, an emergency drug used to counteract the effects of powerful opioids.Hundreds of other Vancouver-area drug users have not been as fortunate.