In a 6-month span, a 16-month-old baby and both her parents died of suspected drug toxicity.
This opioid crisis is getting worse.
What’s going on Canada?
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In a 6-month span, a 16-month-old baby and both her parents died of suspected drug toxicity.
This opioid crisis is getting worse.
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“It’s a dreadful thing to think, but absent of a very powerful intervention sustained over a long period of time, that little girl’s hope of anything resembling a normal life was fraught,” she said.
He studied pipe fitting in Alberta, but a head injury sustained in a car crash affected his ability to continue his career.
A social worker who checked in on the family would book visits in advance, Doig says, giving John and Berkeley lots of time to clean up and “cover their tracks.”
The coroner, which is privy to those investigations, could choose to hold an inquest into the deaths, something Doig says she’d support if it fosters change and protects others.
Barb Fornssler, an assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan, says solely focusing on sobriety reinforces stigma, which keeps people from accessing help.
Like Selby, Fornssler wants to see wraparound services, but she worries existing systems over-police families and over-apprehend children.
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So grim and sad.