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With the girl’s death, the Davies family, which had never thought much about illicit drug use before, was suddenly thrust into the world of B.C.’s overdose crisis.“We have learned a lot,” said Colton Davies, Ms. Davies’ older brother, in an interview from Kamloops. “We’ve really opened our eyes to the festival world, to the drug world in general. We’re just trying to educate ourselves on what happened, and educate ourselves so we can maybe prevent it from happening to another person.
“One guy, he wasn’t breathing properly," Mr. Davies said."She and a friend checked on him, got him some help and water and stuff. He came and thanked them later and said, ‘You saved me. I probably would have collapsed in the sun.'” “Obviously, you shouldn’t be doing drugs at all, but if you’re going to be experimenting with stuff, and obviously teenagers will, use resources that are available,” Mr. Davies said.
“We were always discouraged, if not outright threatened, by law enforcement from doing this because it was technically a violation of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,” Dr. Tupper said., near Nelson, became the first music festival in the province to offer drug checking openly, albeit still technically unauthorized.
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