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Jody Wasserman was expecting the pandemic to cause overdose deaths to rise, but she was not expecting an 87% increase year over year.
Data out of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer on Tuesday reportedly showed deaths due to overdose in Manitoba went from 199 in 2019 to 372 in 2020.
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“That’s 372 lives that were just cut short, 372 families that were devastated, 372 people who were struggling and had nowhere to go, it’s just very sad,” said Wasserman, a member of Overdose Awareness Manitoba. “I have so much anger for the lack of resources out there for those people who need them.”
Each balloon represents a person who lost their life to drug use in the first six months of 2020, though final numbers for the year are currently not known. Sometimes we hear a number we re just trying to show how big that number is, said Rebecca Rummery with Overdose Awareness Manitoba. What we re here to do is just bring awareness and to show all these kids faces that we have lost, and to really humanize the issue of overdose and know that they are somebody s someone.
Rebecca Rummery co-founded Overdose Awareness Manitoba after losing her boyfriend to an overdose in 2018.(Travis Golby/CBC)