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OTTAWA Advocates are calling on the federal government and the City of Vancouver to halt the march toward possible drug decriminalization in the city, saying the process excludes users and demands a do-over.
In a letter to federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu and the Vancouver and British Columbia working groups on decriminalization, a coalition of 15 organizations said the current proposal must be scrapped immediately or risks reproducing the harms of prohibition.
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A local task force that keeps data on medical emergency calls related to drug overdoses is reporting a spike in fatalities in recent weeks.
“Through information received from emergency services, an increase in suspected opioid overdoses having fatal outcomes has been identified in Timmins and the surrounding area,” the Opioid Emergency Response Task Force stated in an alert issued Wednesday.
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The task force issued a similar alert in January in which it reported an “increase in deaths tied to purple heroin and other substances possibly containing opioids like fentanyl.”
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