Winnipeg Police won’t confirm fentanyl killed Winnipeg man

Non-medical users can obtain the drug by scraping or sucking it off new or used transdermal patches intended to release the drug over 72 hours, but police have also been finding it mixed into heroin and fake OxyContin pills, sometimes without the knowledge of users, Insp.

Winnipeg police are investigating two separate incidents and are trying to determine the substances involved.

One person has died and two others went to hospital this weekend in what Winnipeg police say is a possible fentanyl overdose.

There are a number of sings that point to both the dead man and the hospitalized man using fentanyl, but it will be a few days before tests prove what drugs the men took, said Carver.

“Although we have not seen the saturation of Fentanyl in Toronto as of yet, imitation OxyContin tablets containing Fentanyl have also been seized off our own streets of Toronto”, Page said.

Howie Page acknowledged Monday that the “landscape of the problem differs between Vancouver and Toronto”, but warned against being “naive to the potential of shifting trends of a fluid drug culture”.

Dr. Matthew Young of the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse tells 680 CJOB that’s why they believe there have been so many deaths.

In Alberta alone there have been 145 deaths connected to fentanyl so far this year and at least 66 deaths in B.C. where fentanyl was a factor.