{"id":107338,"date":"2022-07-22T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=107338"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:21:58","slug":"the-overdose-crisis-in-the-fraser-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-overdose-crisis-in-the-fraser-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chief discusses overdose crisis in the Fraser Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Serr, Abbotsford police chief, spoke with CIVL regarding the opioid crisis in the Fraser Valley and BC.<\/p>\n<p>\"At the time, when we saw those crises (drug and opioid crisis) and the devastation it was causing for families and individuals, and what we were doing wasn't really making a difference, we needed to look differently how we would focus [on the drug and opioid crises],\" Chief Serr said.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need to support individuals and find them healthcare pathways,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the federal government's website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/publications\/healthy-living\/canada-opioid-crisis-fact-sheet.html\">94 per cent of opioid overdose deaths happen by accident and young Canadians aged 15 to 24 are the fastest-growing population requiring hospital care from opioid overdoses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the CIVL interview below for more information:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Serr, Abbotsford police chief, spoke with CIVL regarding the opioid crisis in the Fraser Valley and BC. &#8220;At the time, when we saw those crises (drug and opioid crisis) and the devastation it was causing for families and individuals, and what we were doing wasn&#8217;t really making a difference, we needed to look differently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":107361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221,222,223],"tags":[16708,2761,3284,17099,2385],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107505,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107338\/revisions\/107505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107338"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=107338"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=107338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}