In early May, Vancouver police responded to their second call of the day involving a young child believed to have overdosed from illicit drugs — this one, a 3-year-old girl on fentanyl. Before they arrived, her grandmother gave her naloxone, a drug used to counteract opioid overdoses. It took two doses to revive the toddler.
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