Staff at Thunder Bay’s overdose prevention site are warning people about possible tainted drugs in the city, according to the director of health services for its operator, Norwest Community Health Centres.
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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.
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Published Friday, February 12, 2021 6:07PM EST TPH confirmed that Toronto Paramedic Services responded to 38 calls for suspected opioid overdose deaths last month, which prompted a drug alert to be issued. This is the highest number of opioid overdose-related deaths reported by paramedics in a month since we began monitoring in 2017, TPH said in a release. It surpassed the previous high of 34 opioid deaths recorded in December 2020. TPH noted that their data does not capture all drug-related deaths. On the last weekend of January, TPH said the city s paramedic services received the highest number of suspected opioid overdose calls in a 24-hour period, attending to 40 incidents.