My Son Died of an Accidental Overdose

Jacob Borisenko died last June after taking anti-anxiety pills he bought off the street which his dad Steve believes were contaminated with fentynal. Steve Borisenko is with me today to talk about his son’s death and the advocacy work he’s doing in the hopes that no one else will have to die.

We’re starting to see the final numbers for opioid overdoses and deaths in Niagara in 2021. More people were taken to hospital for a suspected overdose. But the most shocking is the number of people who died. While we don’t have the final count it will be around 200 people– that’s average of 16 deaths per month and 50 more than 2020 - when we were second behind Toronto.

If you are at risk on an overdose please make sure you are with someone and one of you is  carrying a noloxone kit. Kits are available at many social service agencies and pharmacies across the Region.