Overdose App

• EMS crews have saved 18 patients using Alberta’s overdose response app

  The Digital Overdose Response Service app allows people who are using opioids alone to be monitored and have EMS respond if they become unconscious and need medical help.

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2023
  
• Alberta overdose response app opens provincewide after ‘numerous’ interventions

  Alberta's Drug Overdose Response System app is now available provincewide as a measure to help people using drugs alone at home, but critics say the crisis needs more response.

  Health

  Jun 8, 2022
  
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• Internal documents show confusion after Alberta government halted 2020 overdose prevention pilot

  Internal documents detail shock at the government stepping in to stop a project run by an arm's-length agency.

  Politics

  Apr 8, 2022
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• Alberta testing out new overdose prevention app in Calgary this summer

  The UCP says the mobile app – called the Digital Overdose Response System – will help protect people who are using drugs recreationally while alone in their homes.

  Health

  Mar 23, 2021
• New, potentially life-saving app assists people using drugs alone in B.C.

  The new made-in-B.C. resource is called the Lifeguard App, and is free to download through the App Store and Google Map.

  Health

  May 25, 2020