Whistler Community Services Society is now an official naloxone distribution site

By Brandon Barrett
Community service provider offers free kits and training to individuals and businesses

Whistlerites now have greater access to naloxone-the life-saving drug that counteracts the effects of an opioid overdose-thanks to the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) being named an official naloxone kit distribution site. The social-service provider had lobbied for official designation as a Toward the Heart take-home naloxone site for the past two years, but “there were questions around whether or not we would distribute enough kits to be an official site,” explained Jackie Dickinson, executive director of WCSS.…

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• Whistler News

July 31, 2019

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