Opioid Crisis London

• Growing use of hydromorphone linked to rise in potentially lethal heart infection in opioid-users: study

  Hydromorphone is difficult to dissolve, and people who inject drugs keep and share needles to use the drug residue, researchers say.

  Health

  Jan 28, 2019
  
• London among Canadian cities with highest hospitalization rates for opioid poisonings in 2017

  The London region had a hospitalization rate of 22.5 per 100,000 people in 2017.

  Health

  Dec 13, 2018
  
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• 23 overdoses, 0 deaths reported at temporary overdose prevention site in August: MLHU

  The MLHU warns the increase may be due to a new and highly toxic form of opioids in the London region.

  Health

  Aug 31, 2018
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• London’s medical officer of health applauds Toronto counterpart’s call to decriminalize all drugs

  Toronto's chief medical officer of health is calling on the federal government to decriminalize the personal use of all drugs.

  Health

  Jul 10, 2018