It’s been three years since Isabelle Fortier lost her daughter, Sara-Jane. 

She had been alone in her University of Ottawa dorm room when she suffered an overdose due to fentanyl in her drug supply. In her grief, Fortier turned to educating herself, gaining a certification in drug treatment and prevention, to understand why her daughter died.

“If I had known all the things I know now, it might have changed something. It might not have,” she said. “She died of a toxic drug supply. That’s what killed her.”

But Fortier knows now what would have definitely saved her daughter’s life: naloxone, and someone