Anna Pacik, Communications Manager at Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living, says if their staff didn’t have Naloxone training, they’d have seven dead people at the facility.

A guest resident in Saskatoon’s Lighthouse Supported Living independent tower alerted staff that six people were overdosing and staff rushed to help. Pacik says at the same time there was a person in one of their supported programs who overdosed as well. A resident of the Lighthouse, also taking part in the program, who had taken Naloxone training, administered Naloxone averting a fatality.

She says they do occasionally have to administer Naloxone but what happened last Thursday evening was definitely out of the ordinary and while traumatic, the staff was amazing.

The Lighthouse started in-house Naloxone training in the last year and most of their staff as well as many residents are training in how to administer the drug which can revive someone from a drug overdose.

Pacik also says they surmise that the multiple overdoses which occurred at the same time last Thursday evening came from the same supply of drugs