Grieving parents, children mark sombre anniversary of B.C.’s opioid crisis
Global News
On April 14, 2016, the province declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
Thirteen-year-Talay Leinweber was just six years old when she lost her father to an accidental toxic drug overdose.
“There were a whole bunch of ambulances in front of my apartment,” she said as she recalled the day her father Tyler died in 2016.
The Kelowna, B.C., girl had lost her uncle Rian just five years prior to that, also to an overdose.
“It’s OK to talk about it,” she said. “It’s the stigma around it…that’s why people don’t talk about it and they hide it. That’s a big part of the problem.”
Hoping to reduce the stigma, Leinweber took part in marking a sombre anniversary in B.C.
On April 14, 2016, the province declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
“In 2016 we didn’t even really know about fentanyl,” said Pam Turgeon with Moms Stop The Harm, a group of grieving mothers advocating for change.
“It was just coming to the forefront and now it’s taken so many lives.”
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