Opioid Overdose Canada

• Surviving an overdose may depend where a person lives in Canada, advocate says

  There are eight approved supervised consumption sites in British Columbia, nine in Ontario, six in Alberta, four in Quebec, and none elsewhere, according to Health Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 3, 2019
  
• 2,066 Canadians died of opioid overdoses in the first half of 2018

  That means the total number of opioid-related deaths in the country since January 2016 is now at least 9,000.

  Health

  Dec 12, 2018
  
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• 7-year-old girl alerts school officials after finding parents dead of suspected overdose

  Two adults in Pennsylvania have been found dead of suspected drug overdoses after their 7-year-old daughter told school officials she couldn't wake them up.

  World

  Oct 5, 2016
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• Ontario needs to better track opioid deaths, despite health minister’s claims: critics

  Ontario's health minister has repeatedly denied there is a lack of comprehensive real-time data to track the opioid overdose death crisis in the province, despite Premier Kathleen Wynne conceding earlier this week that more information is needed to track the growing problem.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2016
• Ontario mom speaks out on lack of action in wake of opioid overdose crisis

  An Ontario mother who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose is speaking out in the wake of an opioid overdose crisis in Ontario.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2016
• Ontario ‘slow to respond’ to growing opioid overdose crisis: experts

  An average of two people die from opioid overdoses in Ontario each day, but unlike other provinces across the country -- there is no real-time monitoring system in place to provide a comprehensive look at the issue.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2016