February 25, 2007
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| | Addictions outreach workers needed, says Community Services
Sylvie Paillard
spaillard@squamishchief.com "Two young women are dead, a man was feared dead and at least two more residents were hospitalized last week in heroin-related incidents. Twenty-six-year-old Niomi Joanette died Sunday (Feb. 11), and Angie Brown, also in her twenties, died Wednesday (Feb. 14) after suffering severe health problems exacerbated by heroin use. A third man was hospitalized and a fourth man was missing and initially feared dead in other heroin-related incidents last week. Several days later, on Monday (Feb. 19), a fifth young man was hospitalized after heroin use."
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the rest of the article can be found at http://www.squamishchief.com/madison/WQuestion.nsf/SCallstories?OpenView
Squamish has a population of around 15,000 and such tragedies impact the lives of many. One of the things I find confusing is that because the two women who died had other health issues there was no public health warning or announcement in the community regarding the potential dangers of the heroin available. If there was ‘contaminated’ aspirin on the market that killed once person there would be a public health information blitz even if the person who died had other health problems. Very strange to me.
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