Carpenters in Victoria, British Columbia, are the first participants in an initiative that seeks to reduce the disproportionately high number of drug overdose deaths in the construction industry in British Columbia. The B.C. Construction Industry Rehab Plan (BCCIRP) is providing Naloxone Kits to members of the Victoria branch of the Carpenters’ Regional Council B.C. and Yukon, with the hope that this will save lives. Union representatives say that two of their members have died from opioid overdoses since the crisis began, and that the kits will make a difference in saving others.

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