The opioid crisis is a population health issue

By Gabriela Novotna and Tom McIntosh Comments Off on The opioid crisis is a population health issue addiction, criminal, drug use, fentanyl, harm reduction, health, health crisis, naloxone, opioid poisoning, opioids, OxyContin, police, treatment

Canada has had 2458 opioid related deaths in the past year   According to the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), the rate of opioid poisoning  hospitalizations has been steadily on the rise with approximately 13 Canadians a day hospitalized for an opioid overdose in 2014-2015. What began with the over-prescription of opioids such as […]