Tag: fentanyl

Pastoral statement on Vancouver’s overdose crisis

by Archbishop Michael Miller • February 23, 2017 • 1 Comment

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller released a pastoral letter February 16 urging Roman Catholics to look for ways to respond to the region’s drug overdose crisis. Though it was aimed at Catholics, it is also valuable for the whole Christian…

Facing the fentanyl epidemic in the Downtown Eastside – and beyond

by Matthew Johnson • January 26, 2017 • 0 Comments

Fr. Matthew Johnson serves in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with the Street Outreach Initiative, a joint program of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster and St. James Anglican Church. British Columbia finds itself in a life and death crisis. All around…