A close call outside Our Place Drop-in centre Wednesday. Staff had to rush to save a man overdosing on Fentanyl. Staff noticed the man convulsing on the street with a needle in his arm, just steps away from the overdose prevention site which opened Tuesday. Grant McKenzie tells CTV Vancouver Island his people are trained and ready with Naloxone. "We just try to get the breath going keep them breathing until the ambulance can get here and the professionals can take over."
The staff at Our Place are acting as the frontline in the overdose epidemic going on in Victoria.