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The city’s paramedic service issued a stark overdose warning as one of Canada’s largest electronic dance music festivals returns to Lansdowne Park this weekend.
“Any drug can contain fentanyl and kill you,” paramedics said as they released a video set to a pulsing techno beat similar to what festival-goers will be dancing to at the ninth Escapade Music Festival Saturday and Sunday.
“Are you trusting a drug dealer with your life?”
Meanwhile, Ottawa Public Health nurses and staff will be roaming the festival grounds and manning an info tent watchful for people at risk, while clad in black T-shirts with overdose prevention messages.
“Can you ID an OD? Ask me how!” and another “MDMA can be cut with fentanyl. What?? Ask me!”
A week ago, the region’s summer festival season began with the death of a 25-year-old Oshawa man who suffered an apparent overdose at Rockfest in Montebello.
Paramedics expected to release further prevention messages and said they’d be on hand for the duration of Escapade with resources including a mobile treatment and rehab unit and ATV ambulances, spokesman Marc-Andre Deschamps said.
“We are working closely with Canadian Ski Patrol and the organizers to ensure a safe and fun event,” Deschamps said.
Paramedics did not treat any opioid overdoses at the festival last year and more typically encounter overdoses of GHB, ecstasy and speed at electronic music festivals. They stress those drugs aren’t harmless and any can be adulterated with powerful opioids.
OPH warned users not to mix drugs or use alone and highlighted the symptoms of an overdose — including slow or absent breathing, blue lips and nails, pinpoint pupils and cold, clammy skin — that should spark an immediate call for help.
The health agency also warned against accepting drinks — even water — from strangers because there’s an increased risk of alcohol and drug-facilitated sexual assaults at large festivals.
Staff working the festival include nurses trained in both sexual assault and the use of the overdose-reversing naloxone and will be visible to festival-goers, OPH spokeswoman Donna Casey said.
“Our role is to raise awareness about substance use and to promote harm reduction key messages,” she said. “Using this approach, staff can early on identify individuals who may be at risk by offering non-medical support or referring them to appropriate medical services onsite.”
Escapade organizers say on their website that illegal or illicit substances, drugs and drug paraphernalia are not allowed at the festival and link to both the health department’s “party safe” resources and to Project Soundcheck, which works to prevent sexual violence at large events.
Going to a party? Taking a pill for a boost? What’s in the pill? Any drug can contain Fentanyl and kill you. Are you trusting a drug dealer with your life? #Escapade2018 pic.twitter.com/CxOoi8Ke7X
— Ottawa Paramedic Svc (@OttawaParamedic) June 21, 2018
Can you ID an #OD ?
Don't use alone.
Carry #Naloxone https://t.co/Dd6aUheLq1
Don't be afraid to call 9-1-1#PartySafe https://t.co/LGteetDORD
Please RT pic.twitter.com/wkp3IJWVEV
— Ottawa Public Health (@ottawahealth) June 22, 2018
Here are some tips for festivals to make #safermusicspaces #safermusicspaces2018 ?? pic.twitter.com/9Wkv1xlGqn
— Project SoundCheck (@ProjSoundCheck) May 30, 2018
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“Any drug can contain fentanyl and kill you,” paramedics said as they released a video set to a pulsing techno beat similar to what festival-goers will be dancing to at the ninth Escapade Music Festival Saturday and Sunday.
“Are you trusting a drug dealer with your life?”
Meanwhile, Ottawa Public Health nurses and staff will be roaming the festival grounds and manning an info tent watchful for people at risk, while clad in black T-shirts with overdose prevention messages.
“Can you ID an OD? Ask me how!” and another “MDMA can be cut with fentanyl. What?? Ask me!”
A week ago, the region’s summer festival season began with the death of a 25-year-old Oshawa man who suffered an apparent overdose at Rockfest in Montebello.
Paramedics expected to release further prevention messages and said they’d be on hand for the duration of Escapade with resources including a mobile treatment and rehab unit and ATV ambulances, spokesman Marc-Andre Deschamps said.
“We are working closely with Canadian Ski Patrol and the organizers to ensure a safe and fun event,” Deschamps said.
Paramedics did not treat any opioid overdoses at the festival last year and more typically encounter overdoses of GHB, ecstasy and speed at electronic music festivals. They stress those drugs aren’t harmless and any can be adulterated with powerful opioids.
OPH warned users not to mix drugs or use alone and highlighted the symptoms of an overdose — including slow or absent breathing, blue lips and nails, pinpoint pupils and cold, clammy skin — that should spark an immediate call for help.
The health agency also warned against accepting drinks — even water — from strangers because there’s an increased risk of alcohol and drug-facilitated sexual assaults at large festivals.
Staff working the festival include nurses trained in both sexual assault and the use of the overdose-reversing naloxone and will be visible to festival-goers, OPH spokeswoman Donna Casey said.
“Our role is to raise awareness about substance use and to promote harm reduction key messages,” she said. “Using this approach, staff can early on identify individuals who may be at risk by offering non-medical support or referring them to appropriate medical services onsite.”
Escapade organizers say on their website that illegal or illicit substances, drugs and drug paraphernalia are not allowed at the festival and link to both the health department’s “party safe” resources and to Project Soundcheck, which works to prevent sexual violence at large events.
Going to a party? Taking a pill for a boost? What’s in the pill? Any drug can contain Fentanyl and kill you. Are you trusting a drug dealer with your life? #Escapade2018 pic.twitter.com/CxOoi8Ke7X
— Ottawa Paramedic Svc (@OttawaParamedic) June 21, 2018
Can you ID an #OD ?
Don't use alone.
Carry #Naloxone https://t.co/Dd6aUheLq1
Don't be afraid to call 9-1-1#PartySafe https://t.co/LGteetDORD
Please RT pic.twitter.com/wkp3IJWVEV
— Ottawa Public Health (@ottawahealth) June 22, 2018
Here are some tips for festivals to make #safermusicspaces #safermusicspaces2018 ?? pic.twitter.com/9Wkv1xlGqn
— Project SoundCheck (@ProjSoundCheck) May 30, 2018
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