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Providing a safe prescribed and monitored source of opioids can help reduce the risk of drug overdoses by reducing the need to seek street-available drugs. It has the potential to add some normalcy into a life.
Health Headlines Commentary for April 26, 2019 Source: Ottawa opioid users are finding hope in a program that supplies drugs safely
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Life-threatening emergencies like heart attack or stroke get immediate care as they should. Why are people suffering from drug addiction who are at high risk of harm or death treated differently with limited resources to save their lives?
Health Headlines Commentary for March 27, 2019 Source: Ottawa Public Health sends out alert after three fatal overdoses on Monday
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The complexities of Ontario’s opioid crisis
Health Headlines Commentary for April 20, 2017 Source: Two people a day die of opioid ODs in Ontario: study Reference: Latest Trends in Opioid-Related Deaths in Ontario: 1991 to 2015
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Ottawa Paramedics want more naloxone on their rigs to treat increasing numbers of opiate overdoses
Health Headlines Commentary for February 6, 2017 Source: Paramedics want to pack more naloxone as overdoses soar