STAY CONNECTED: Have the stories that matter most delivered every night to your email inbox. Subscribe to our daily local news wrap.
opioids

Teenage boy who overdosed at Strathmore house party confirmed dead

Sep 28, 2019 | 11:20 AM

RCMP in southern Alberta say one of three teenage boys who overdosed at a house party on the weekend has died.

The 16-year-old boy died in hospital after taking suspected opioid pills at a house party Saturday night in Strathmore – a community just east of Calgary.

Two 15-year-old boys who were at the same party were also taken to hospital.

There was no update on their condition.