Canada

Source: Canadians in small towns face alarmingly higher risk of opioid overdoses: report|the Globe & Mail Canadians who live in small cities face substantially higher risks of opioid overdoses than those who live in larger centres, according to new national data that expose how poverty, unemployment and other factors are ...

Source: City of Vancouver releases 23 recommendations to combat ongoing opioid crisis|Global News.ca A new report shows overdose deaths in Vancouver remain high, with a large number of victims not necessarily who you’d think they are. Ted Chernecki reports. The City of Vancouver is out with 23 recommendations to combat the ...

Source: Don’t keep naloxone kit in your car this winter, health advocate warns|CBC.ca Drug becomes less effective when it’s exposed to temperatures below 5 C As temperatures begin to drop, health officials are war ning British Columbians not to keep naloxone kits in their cars. The medication, which can reverse a ...

Source: Naloxone 101: Frontlines of the opioid crisis|the Concordian Saving lives and breaking down stigmas with public education “I’m here today because there isn’t a very effective public education program,” said Richard Davy, a first-year social work student at McGill, after wrapping up the first in a series of naloxone ...

Source: After a deadly day in Windsor’s opioid crisis, front-line workers mourn one of their own – then soldier on|Globe & Mail Originally published November 16th, 2018 Within 24 hours, four men in Ontario’s auto capital died of suspected overdoses – including one of the support workers who helped some of ...

Source: What I saw in a day on the Downtown Eastside shocked me|The Globe & Mail How have we let things go so wrong for Canada’s roughest neighbourhood? It’s just another day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A young man sits on the wet sidewalk, his legs spread wide, sucking the smoke ...