London Opioids

• In marking Overdose Awareness Day, MLHU looks to put focus back on region’s opioid crisis

  More than 1,037 opioid-related emergency department visits were recorded in the region last year, nearly double the number seen in 2019, according to health unit figures.

  Health

  Aug 31, 2022
  
• Search of London home yields nearly $40,000 worth of drugs: police

  Two Londoners are facing a combined total of 13 trafficking-related offences following the raid.

  Crime

  Jan 7, 2020
  
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• How London’s foot patrol officers are handling a growing number of opioid-related calls

  The head of London police's foot patrol unit estimates that officers are responding to roughly three or four overdose calls per day.

  Health

  May 9, 2019
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• Middlesex London Health Unit launches virtual tour of overdose prevention site

  Officials want to give people a better sense of the site's layout, and the work being done there.

  Health

  Jan 25, 2019
• Death Dealing: What London is doing about opioids

  Some say the discourse of opioids as an "epidemic" or a "crisis" is also problematic.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2018
• Death Dealing: Opioids aren’t the problem

  Some argue the criminalization of drugs, and decisions that prevent affordable housing for people living in poverty, are problematic, "death dealing" structures.

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2018
• Death Dealing: Who uses opioids in London?

  It was May 6, 2006, when Josh first injected drugs on William Street north of Dundas in London. From then on he says he didn't stop and had a "needle in my arm every day."

  Canada

  Apr 16, 2018