It s absolutely catastrophic out there right now, said Robert Sandwith, co-founder of Hand in Hand Support.
As a frontline worker, Sandwith offers transitional support to those struggling with addiction. He said many people who seek help are in desperate need for support. We re not getting phone calls just from individuals. We ve always been getting them from the mothers, but we re getting calls from the sisters, the brothers, the grandparents, cousins, friends, said Sandwith. We re averaging sometimes two to three phone calls just for one individual and complete despair of what to do.
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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.
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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.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Try refreshing your browser, or Ontario failing people struggling with opioid addictions: Provincial group Back to video
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.
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