Colleen LaRocque’s 29-year-old son, Mitchell Sveinbjornson, died from a drug overdose in August 2020 after doing cocaine that was laced with fentanyl at a party in southeastern Saskatchewan.
She believes he would have thought twice about taking cocaine if he had known it contained fentanyl, the far more potent and often deadly opioid.
“They managed to get their hands on some tainted cocaine and there were four of them that were there and three woke up. One didn’t,” she said.
“My son had everything going for him. Everything. Loved his job. Loved his kids. Loved his family. This was just a poor decision.”
The registered nurse would like to see fentanyl test strips become as
