Category: Health and Society

… expect to see a subsequent uptick in the number of drug overdose deaths, a report released Thursday by San Diego-based health nonprofit Institute …

Suicide forms part of the so-called deaths from despair, which also includes unintentional poisoning by alcohol or drug overdose, and chronic liver …

In the first four months of this year, emergency crews responded to 1,307 suspected opioid overdose calls, including 71 incidents involving deaths.

More people have overdosed on drugs and died in Guelph and nearby areas in less than six months this year than they did in all of 2019. There have …

“None of us benefit from lawlessness. As I shared with Moody Police Chief Hunt last night, my prayers and deepest sympathies are with the department …

“We’ve seen people shifting their drugs of choice and we have also seen the toxicity in the fentanyl increase and we think both of those situations are …

Just yesterday I learned one of my close friends died from an overdose,” Hicks said last week. “It’s been a mess. The pandemic has caused a lot of …

Toronto Police busted two drug trafficking suspects in the fentanyl-infested … were 343 suspected overdose calls to paramedics,including 25 deaths.

It says in 2016, there were 2,861 overdose deaths in Canada and that number rose to 3,996 the following year, or nearly 11 people a day. “More people …

In the first four months of 2020, 71 of the 1,307 suspected opioid overdose calls that Toronto paramedics have attended have involved deaths.