Fentanyl awareness one way to ease Langley health challenges
Frank Bucholtz photo Jason Cook, executive director of Langley Health Services and site manager of Langley Memorial Hospital, talked Tuesday to members of Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce about health challenges in Langley. He was joined by emergency room physician Dr. Robert Anthony. The fentanyl crisis involves many more people than the high-profile drug addicts on the streets of Whalley or Vancouver’s downtown eastside. It involves people who overdose in their homes or at parties. In many cases, they die because those around them don’t know what to do. Jason Cook, executive director of Langley Health Services and site manager of Langley Memorial Hospital, emphasized the importance of awareness in combating the scourge of fentanyl, when speaking about health issues to Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. There were 30 deaths from fentanyl in Langley in 2016, and the people most susceptible were men between 30 and 50. Dr. Bob Anthony, an emergency room p...