{"id":155067,"date":"2018-03-03T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155067"},"modified":"2018-03-03T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:32:31","slug":"southern-alberta-first-nation-declares-emergency-after-spike-in-drug-overdoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/03\/southern-alberta-first-nation-declares-emergency-after-spike-in-drug-overdoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Alberta First Nation declares emergency after spike in drug overdoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_136629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136629\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1000px-Flag_of_Alberta.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136629\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1000px-Flag_of_Alberta.svg_.png\" alt=\"Flag or Alberta (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1000px-Flag_of_Alberta.svg_.png 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1000px-Flag_of_Alberta.svg_-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1000px-Flag_of_Alberta.svg_-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag or Alberta (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alberta#\/media\/File:Flag_of_Alberta.svg\">Photo by Wikimedia Commons, Public domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>STAND OFF, Alta. &#8212; A spike in drug overdoses has prompted a First Nation in southern Alberta to declare a state of local emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The Blood Tribe says it has dealt with at least 30 overdoses in the last seven days, including at least one death.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous leaders say they need more money from the federal and Alberta governments to pay for overtime and other costs.<\/p>\n<p>The First Nation says it has received more than 200 naloxone kits and will hold training sessions this weekend on how to use them to prevent overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>In nearby Lethbridge there have been more than 50 overdoses in the last 10 days linked to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>The call for help Friday came on the same day a police organized crime unit announced the arrest of five people on drug charges following an investigation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Police say at least one of the suspects is a member of a gang called the Mad Cowz.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they seized fentanyl pills, carfentanil, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Amyotte, Harmeet Singh Bhachu, Brittany Bird, Tara Gearo and Coral Olivos face drug and other charges. (Lethbridge News Now)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAND OFF, Alta. &#8212; A spike in drug overdoses has prompted a First Nation in southern Alberta to declare a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[1771,47568,13995,47569,11010,28517],"class_list":["post-155067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-blood-trib","tag-drug-overdose","tag-e","tag-first-nation","tag-lethbridge","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}