Author of the article: Postmedia Staff
Publishing date: May 20, 2021 • 32 minutes ago • 2 minute read • Ontario health units are warning of increased opioid poisonings and of drugs laced with potentially lethal opioids unsafe for human consumption. They offer free naloxone kits to counteract - temporarily - the effects of overdose. Photo by Emma Meldrum /Emma Meldrum/The Daily Press
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On the heels of a troubling new report about increasing opioid deaths locally and across Ontario, health units are warning of tainted drugs now in circulation.
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties have not recorded a spike in opioid toxicity in recent weeks, the release noted, but neighbouring regions from Peterborough to Leeds-Grenville have – and such cases are not always reported, Hastings Prince Edward Public Health announced Thursday in a news release.
Health units issuing alerts as overdoses rise, tainted drugs found
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Public health warn of toxic, illicit drug supply
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Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 17, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 2 minute read A client station inside the Consumption and Treatment Services Site on Montreal Street in Kingston, Ont., on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Steph Crosier/The Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network) Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard
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The local public health agency is warning of a particularly toxic illicit drug supply circulating in the region.
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health said in a news release that recent drug toxicology reports have found fentanyl, carfentanil and benzodiazepine analogues in the supply and that hospital visit data provided to the agency by the Ministry of Health shows there was a record-high number of opioid overdoses in the area.