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Feds will update opioid action plan by February: Health Minister Jane PhilpottHealth experts are urging Canada to declare a national public health emergency to deal with the country's deadly opioid crisis.CanadaNov 19, 2016
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Opioid crisis a national public emergency and Ottawa needs to act, medical experts sayPoliticians are meeting with public health experts, doctors and family members who have lost loved ones at a two-day summit in Ottawa to hash out a solution to escalating - and deadly - rates of drug addiction.HealthNov 18, 2016
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Politicians search for national solution to Canada’s opioid crisis at summit in OttawaCanada's opioid epidemic will be front and centre today in Ottawa, where politicians will meet with members of the medical community with the common goal of curbing drug addiction and saving lives.CanadaNov 18, 2016
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Canada’s surging opioid crisis: ‘hodgepodge’ overdose tracking leaves true magnitude unknownThere is no standardized, national protocol for how overdoses are categorized or reported, which experts say makes it all but impossible to come up with an accurate pan-Canadian snapshot.CrimeNov 17, 2016
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