Synthetic Opioid

• Montreal parents relieved after police make arrests in connection with teen’s overdose

  Last December, 15-year-old Mathis Boivin died in his sleep after taking the powerful synthetic opioid isotonitazene. Montreal police made two arrests in his death.

  Canada

  Sep 18
  
• Interior Health issues street drug alert for Penticton

  A drug being sold as Down contains a strong synthetic opioid called Nitazene. The drug carries a high risk of overdosing.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2023
  
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• Canada’s other health-care crisis: the epidemic of fatal drug overdoses

  The shocking B.C. death rate is a glaring example of the latest public health crisis in Canada: an epidemic of fatal drug overdoses that's even worse than the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Politics

  Aug 27, 2020
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• Halifax police issue warning after seizing 1,900 pills of potent new opioid

  Police say the opioid was found as part of a drug trafficking investigation. It is the first seizure of isotonitazene in Halifax. 

  Crime

  Mar 5, 2020
• Saint John police issue warning after finding potent new opioid in the city

  Police say someone may need several doses of naloxone, a drug used to block the effects of opioids, to effectively counter an overdose of the potent new opioid isotonitazene.

  Health

  Mar 5, 2020
• Carfentanil found in Kingston: Public health unit

  New data collected by KFL&A Public Health shows the dangerous synthetic opioid, carfentanil, is circulating in the Kingston area.

  Canada

  Feb 16, 2019
• Woodstock police issue alert after 2 drug samples test positive for carfentanil

  Carfentanil is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and is 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.

  Crime

  Dec 14, 2017