's Interior Health Authority is warning residents using, or considering using, drugs to take the necessary steps to protect themselves after a sudden spike in overdose deaths. Interior Health serves over 50 communities and stretches from beyond Williams Lake in the northwest of British Columbia to Osoyoos in the southwest and from Golden in the northeast to Fernie in the southeast. "There is no pattern at all where the overdoses are occurring, so we have issued an alert for the entire region," said Interior Health spokesperson Amanda Fisher. Interior Health has mobile supervised consumption services in Kelowna and Kamloops. A list of locations to get a Naloxone kit can be found on the Interior Health website.

Source: CBC News January 27, 2018 17:37 UTC