{"id":609562,"date":"2026-04-17T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:18:10","slug":"fraser-health-issues-drug-poisonings-alert-for-surrey-white-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609562\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Health issues drug poisonings alert for Surrey, White Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fraser Health issues drug poisonings alert for Surrey, White Rock<\/p>\n

Published 3:30 pm Thursday, April 16, 2026<\/p>\n

Fraser Health issued a toxic drug poisoning alert Thursday (April 16) due to an increase in \u201ctoxic drug poisonings\u201d in Surrey and White Rock this past week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current supply contains multiple high potency substances. Combining multiple depressants can lead to complex overdoses. Naloxone will reverse the effects of opioids if present, but it does not reverse effects of benzodiazepines or tranquilizers,\u201d reads the alert.<\/a><\/p>\n

The warning also listed tips for safe drug use, as well as links to local harm reduction services and how to get your drugs checked.<\/p>\n

The alert was posted online <\/a>and sent via text using the Toxic Drug and Health Alerts System, which is managed by BC Centre for Disease Control.<\/p>\n

Text notifications are sent to subscribers who want timely information about illicit substances and increases in toxic drug poisonings in their region, the health authority says. To subscribe, text JOIN to 253787 (ALERTS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fraser Health issues drug poisonings alert for Surrey, White Rock Published 3:30 pm Thursday, April 16, 2026 Fraser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-609562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}