Fighting fentanyl on the Blood Tribe indigenous reserve
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

It’s so rare that we read a good-news story in the fight against fentanyl abuse, but the Blood Tribe in Alberta has made real headway. The tribe lost 35 people to overdoses last year, and as many as 35 children were removed by social services. Those are big numbers for a tribe of 7,500.
But through organized community action, overdose kits, two confidential hotlines and a system to help recovering addicts, heroes like Dr. Esther Tailfeathers have slowed the crisis.
Read more about their progress here: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2016/0705/How-Canada-s-Blood-Tribe-brought-opiate-overdose-deaths-down-to-zero

