‘It just shocks me:’ Calgary police chief wants action on opioid crisis
Calgary’s police chief says the Alberta government has to take more aggressive action on fentanyl if it wants to help addicts and families who are being destroyed.
“It is a crisis,” said Calgary Police Chief Roger Chaffin in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“Look at the numbers of deaths. Numbers of homicides and traffic fatalities don’t come anywhere near the deaths associated with these drugs.”
In the first 10 months of 2016, 338 Albertans died from opioid-related overdoses, with fentanyl linked to 193 of those deaths.