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Early toxicology results from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service say illicit drugs likely were responsible for two recent deaths in Regina.
On Feb. 14, police found a 28-year-old man dead at a home near McCarthy Boulevard and Eden Avenue. The next day, a 37-year-old woman was found dead in a home near Second Avenue and McTavish Street.
“We asked for an expedited toxicology test on those two individuals and it has come back with a highly lethal amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine,” Clive Weighill, Saskatchewan’s chief coroner, said during a media conference Friday in Saskatoon.
“We are concerned that it is a bad batch of drugs that are in there right now and we want to warn the people of Regina and probably the surrounding area that (they should) be careful of what (they) are buying.”
Weighill says the coroners service knows people are going to continue to buy illicit drugs, which is why he wants to get the warning out to as many people as possible.
“I think that is part of the role of the coroners service, that if we hear of something then we should warn the public about it,” he said.
“I think we have to be talking about it (and) we have to be sure our parents are talking to our kids about it. We have to warn people that there are these illicit drugs in our community that could cause a definite harm.”
The coroner said the Regina Police Service is aware of 67 non-fatal drug overdoses in the city since Jan. 1. Those are in addition to the two deaths currently under investigation.
-With files from 650 CKOM’s Harrison Brooks