I sat there and had to watch her while her respirations declined.
Donna May, “mumsDU”: My daughter Jack was an opiate user. I found her in an overdose one evening and rushed her to the hospital. In hospital, the doctor failed to recognise that she was indeed in an overdose situation and failed to administer naloxone, the opiate reversal drug. And I sat there and had to watch her while her respirations declined, and she eventually went into cardiac arrest and passed away. And they revived her and left it to me to decide to pull the plug. I think that Canada needs to be adequately educated and trained in responding to overdose and I think that all measures of an overdose should be looked at. Had the drugs that my daughter was taking been legalised and regulated, they wouldn't have been cut with levamisole that eventually led to tremendous infection within her body, causing necrotising fasciitis or flesh-eating disease; my daughter lost her legs.
