mardi 7 février 2017
Record total of 343 fentanyl deaths last year prompts Alberta government action
Facing a grim and growing death toll from fentanyl overdoses — a total of 343 last year — the Alberta government moved Tuesday to make antidote kits available to all first-responders and to the general public without prescriptions.
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