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When you are a town of just 14,000 people, every opioid overdose is personal. CBC’s Omar Dabaghi-Pacheco visited Pembroke, which is trying a new solution to combat the rising drug crisis. CBC went behind the scenes with paramedics during life-or-death calls and saw firsthand how their approach works.
CBC Ottawa at 6 has been recognized with a Canadian Screen Award for a feature on the impact of the fentanyl epidemic on Pembroke, Ont.
The documentary Priority Purple: Overdose in Progress was awarded the best news or information segment at the annual awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
Priority Purple, which first aired last June, was the third in a CBC Ottawa docuseries exploring the human side of the opioid crisis in eastern Ontario.
CBC Ottawa’s Omar Dabaghi-Pacheco and Ryan Garland reported from Pembroke, a town of 14,000 people about 120 kilometres northwest of Ottawa that has more than double the number of fatal overdoses per capita than …
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