It's a campaign that has become all the more acute this year, amid a rash of fentanyl overdoses in Canada that has shown no signs of abating. Right now, only people with opiate prescriptions can access naloxone in Canada, although a number of cities and provinces have made kits with the antidote available to those individuals. One of the mothers' main goals: to convince the federal health agency to relax access to naloxone, a substance that experts says is an antidote for opioids because it can reverse overdoses caused by them. She's part of mumsDU, a group of mothers who travel across Canada raising awareness of substance abuse issues, especially fentanyl, a powerful opiate that gained prominence as Ox圜ontin fell out of favor. Her mother, Donna May, tells that story about Jac (who is pictured above) every chance she gets now.
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