Carpenters in Victoria are the first participants in an initiative that seeks to reduce the disproportionately high number of drug overdose deaths in the construction industry in British Columbia.
The B.C. Construction Industry Rehab Plan (BCCIRP) is providing naloxone kits to members of the Victoria branch of the Carpenters’ Regional Council B.C. and Yukon. Naloxone reverses the effects of opioid overdoses while they’re happening.
The BCCIRP initiative is called A Kit in Every Hand.
Mike Motiuk, a Local 1598 union representative with the Carpenters’ Regional Council, is happy he and his Victoria colleagues were chosen to pilot the program. He says the seven-year toxic
