With overdoses on the rise in Prince Albert, police want people to know what one looks like

Halyna Mihalik · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 16, 2025 5:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Prince Albert constabulary are informing the nationalist astir perchance fatal fentanyl circulating successful the city.

Police said successful a merchandise Saturday that they are presently investigating aggregate overdoses involving fentanyl that took spot precocious Friday and Saturday.

In caller weeks, Saskatoon has besides been reporting precocious overdose rates with a higher hazard of death. At the opening of March, the metropolis recorded 37 overdoses successful conscionable 24 hours.

Those numbers person been precocious capable to punctual the state to unfastened an exigency operations centre.

Prairie Harm simplification confirmed to CBC that drugs successful Saskatoon with unsafe levels of fentanyl are being blamed for a higher hazard of overdoses and deaths.

Recognizing the signs of an overdose

As much overdoses occur, Prince Albert Police are urging radical to familiarize themselves with the signs of an overdose. 

Some of the signs of an overdose include:

• Difficulty walking, talking oregon staying awake.
• Blue, purple oregon grey lips oregon nails.
• Very tiny pupils.
• Cold and clammy skin.
• Dizziness and confusion.
• Extreme drowsiness.
• Choking, gurgling oregon snoring sounds.
• Slow, anemic oregon nary breathing.

Police besides privation to punctual  people astir the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which serves to supply immoderate ineligible extortion for those who acquisition oregon witnesser an overdose and question exigency help.

Police are urging radical to telephone 911 if they fishy idiosyncratic has experienced an overdose.