Naloxone kits now available at SFU campuses

published on March 18, 2025 by Mackenzie Fleet in CityNews Vancouver

Calls for increased harm reduction and overdose prevention supplies to be available at post-secondary institutions are being answered in the Lower Mainland.

Back in January 2024, Vancouver-born-and-raised Cailin Sidney McIntyire-Starko was killed after fentanyl poisoning and was later found in her University of Victoria dorm room.

Her death resulted in calls from friends, family, and advocates for preventative naloxone kits to be available on B.C. campuses.

As of last week, Simon Fraser University has installed those kits in both its Vancouver and Surrey campuses, as well as in residence and housing buildings.

Moms Stop the Harm co-founder Leslie McBain welcomes the move by the university.

“Naloxone blocks the opioid, thereby letting the person who has ingested it, breathe and people die of overdose because they can no longer breathe. That’s the mechanism, so Naloxone prevents that,” she explained…