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Saving lives and supporting recovery from addiction
Alberta’s government is opening more medical detox beds and offering nasal naloxone kits in Edmonton as part of its ongoing work to save lives and increase access to recovery supports.
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With $2.1 million from the government over three years, Edmonton’s George Spady Society now has 35 medical detox beds.
Another $1.5 million from the provincial government is supporting a pilot project to provide Albertans in the Edmonton area with publicly funded nasal naloxone kits. The project is being led by the George Spady Society, in collaboration with Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Police Services and other community partners.
Overdose deaths in the Hat tick up
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The number of drug related deaths in Medicine Hat, up to October this year, is slightly less than it was for the whole of 2019, according to the latest numbers released by the provincial government.
Medicine Hat hit a peak in 2018 with 19 deaths and then it fell slightly to 14 in 2019. The number for the first 10 months of this year has been 11.
In 2016 Medicine Hat had 8 drug related deaths. Methamphetamine is listed as the drug, and for two it was cocaine.