At provincial education departments in the four Atlantic provinces and Quebec, no updates have yet been made to include specific information about fentanyl in school curriculum. Chloe Kotval, a 14-year-old from Kanata, the same neighbourhood where Spirak lives, died of a drug overdose in February. Ever since, Spirak and her mother Tanya have been working to try and get more drug education on opioids in Ontario classrooms. Jessica Spirak, 12, and her mother Tanya have been lobbying their school district and the provincial government for more drug education on opioids and overdosing in Ontario schools. Lysyshyn said school curriculum shouldn't be specific to the dangers and risks of fentanyl.

Source: CBC News September 05, 2017 09:00 UTC