5 www.rnca.ca Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Association Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness CONTENTS RNCA News & Photo Album What is Prescription Drug Abuse? . . . . . . . . . . 10 Help Prevent Problematic Prescription Drug Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Warning Signs of Prescription Drug Abuse . . . 21 Opioid Overdose Signs and Symptoms . . . . . . 25 What is Fentanyl? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 How Canada Got Addicted to Fentanyl . . . . . . 29 Fentanyl’s Deadly Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Street Fentanyl, Straight Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Fentanyl in Newfoundland: Timeline of a Powerful Killer Drug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fentanyl in the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Preventing Overdoses with Naloxone . . . . . . . . 41 Naloxone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Opioid Overdose and Naloxone . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5 Steps to Save a Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Expect to See More Naloxone Pop-Up Tents at Summer Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Death Count Rises as NL Grapples with Painkiller Addictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Addiction Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Treatment Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Addiction Services in Newfoundland . . . . . . . . 65 Treatment Centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mental Health and Addiction Assistance in Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Rural Recovery: Addicts Talk Opioid Use in Stephenville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MORE RESOURCES THERE’S HELP FOR DRUG ADDICTION! . .112 RNCA made a $2,500 donation to Mental Health and Addictions NL . . . . . . 79 2018 Police and Peace Officers of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Police Exemplary Service Medals and Bars Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Donations to the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Detective Sgt. Thomas Fraize Scholarship . . . . 89 Presentation to the RNCVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Newfoundland and Labrador Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony & Parade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 2017 Diploma in Police Studies Program Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Labrador West Took Part in Bell Let’s Talk Day on January 25, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Law Enforcement Torch Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Mental Health Week in Labrador City . . . . . . . . 99 Labrador Pride Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Janeway Telethon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 2017 Cst. William Moss Softball Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Bike Safety Rodeo Held in Labrador City . . . . 103 Inspector For A Day - Labrador West . . . . . . . 103 Memorial on Parade Commemorative Parkette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 DARE Graduation in Labrador City . . . . . . . . 105 Ronald MacDonald House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Seniors’ 2017 St. John’s Christmas Party . . . . 109 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 27th Annual Community Guide Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness RNCA Messages Message from the Premier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Message from the RNCA President . . . . . . . . . . 3 RNCA Executive Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Message from the Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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