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Descrease article font size Increase article font size York Regional Police in Ontario issued a public warning on the dangers of opioid use after responding to five overdoses, one of them fatal, all in one day in the Newmarket area. Police say they were called to a Queen Street address …
Read More »‘Almost died a few times’: Northern Ontario city of Sudbury grapples with opioids
GREATER SUDBURY, Ont. — Crystal Plume sits in the shade of a tree near a busy intersection in downtown Sudbury and carefully injects fentanyl into a vein on the back of her hand before licking the speck of blood left behind. The 36-year-old who regularly panhandles in the northern Ontario …
Read More »Surge of weekend drug overdoses in Ottawa part of ongoing national crisis
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 10, 2023 1:09 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ottawa police say nearly two dozen people suffered drug overdoses over the weekend in the country’s capital city. The Ottawa Police Service says it responded to 19 drug-related overdoses on Saturday, …
Read More »U of A researchers test AI to measure risk of prescription opioids
Researchers in Alberta are experimenting with artificial intelligence to measure the risks of prescription opioids amid the ongoing drug overdose crisis across Canada. While doctors have a set protocol to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction, Dr. Dean Eurich said machine learning “could do a better job” of pinning …
Read More »OPP warn of ‘potentially fatal’ opioid strain in central Ontario after 4 deaths
OPP are advising of a ‘highly potent and potentially fatal strain’ of illicit opioids that they say may be circulating in Simcoe County and the District Municipality of Muskoka. News Source link
Read More »Is safe supply for opioid use effective? Here’s what the experts, data say – National
Front-line workers of Canada’s opioid crisis say harm reduction approaches like safe supplies for those navigating substance use are clear even amid renewed political debate around the issue. Debate around safe supply recently reignited after Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre posted a video to his Twitter account saying initiatives like …
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