{"id":42821,"date":"2024-05-04T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/lessons-from-the-front-lines-of-canadas-fentanyl-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:13:16","slug":"lessons-from-the-front-lines-of-canadas-fentanyl-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/lessons-from-the-front-lines-of-canadas-fentanyl-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From the Front Lines of Canada\u2019s Fentanyl Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A machine used for chemical analysis, with a slight resemblance to a printer, thrummed repeatedly as technicians at a drug testing site in Victoria, British Columbia, prepared to open its doors to local drug users.<\/p>\n

Most of the samples handed to Substance Drug Checking<\/a>, a lab led by researchers at the University of Victoria, were found to have contained fentanyl, the synthetic opioid driving fatal overdoses in the province to record levels.<\/p>\n

Alarm about the spread of fentanyl is entrenched in how Canada and the United States talk about the opioid crisis. But in Mexico, the government has repeatedly denied that fentanyl abuse is spilling over its border and has asserted that the problem is exclusive to its northern neighbors.<\/p>\n

Weak detection efforts, in public health settings or during drug death investigations, have meant that the extent of fentanyl\u2019s reach in Mexico is largely an open question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n