Jury recommends education, training following UVic students overdose death [Video]

The jury has made a number of recommendations following an inquest into the death of an 18-year-old university student in January 2024.

Sidney McIntyre-Starko was 18 years old when she died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in her dorm room at the University of Victoria.

She and her friends had snorted a substance they’d found at the bottom of a box of coolers.

The inquest into her death was called after her parents went public with concerns over the response of UVic campus security and the length of time it took to give her naloxone and CPR.

The jury made recommendations about education, training and protocols around emergencies and the toxic drug crisis.

It wants Minister of Education and Child Care Lisa Beare to implement a program in high schools training students on how to administer CPR, how to use automated external defibrillators (AED), how to use and administer nasal naloxone and develop a presentation on identifying drugs …