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Canadian children face an ongoing mental health crisis during COVID-19.
The harm to children is such that a new campaign called #CodePink is underway to get governments to act immediately.
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Code Pink is the term used to declare a pediatric emergency exactly the current state of affairs in this country, with children’s hospitals reporting a 100% increase in suicide attempt admissions, a 200% jump in substance abuse disorder admissions, and a sharp rise in rates of child abuse. There also has been a disturbing increase in cases of infants with fractures and head trauma, for example, since September 2020.
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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.
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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.