One group of scientists is aiming to get better data from wastewater testing, while a southern Alberta First Nation is tightening policing to reduce overdose deaths
On the Blood Reserve, a southern Alberta First Nation about 200 kilometres south of Calgary, the community has gone to war with drug traffickers and the rampant opioid use they push. The reserve set up a special police team, while simultaneously cleaning up and renovating abandoned houses that help fuel drug operations.
“Fentanyl is a lot less available right now. We hit it hard. It’s not going to go away overnight. If you close an eye to for five minutes, they’re going to start again.” “Probably we’ll never be able to do away with it completely, but we want to bring those numbers down,” Blood Tribe Chief Roy Fox said.One of the many lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic was the effectiveness of wastewater testing and the neighbourhood-level data that can be collected.
Paul Westlund, chief executive officer of C.E.C. Analytics, a Calgary company supplying the technology to collect the wastewater samples, said people seem afraid to disclose or learn about the extent of drug use in their communities in that it might “expose that they are not doing as much as they could” to help the most vulnerable.
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