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Search the Ontario budget for the words “opioid” or “overdose,” suggests Adrienne Spafford, executive director of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario.
“You will find the words are not there,” she said.
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That’s a reflection of how seriously provincial politicians are taking the opioid crisis and thousands of preventable overdose deaths each year, Spafford said Friday, in the wake of a report showing 2,462 people in the province died last year of opioid overdoses, a 60 per cent jump from 2019.