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Knudson and Hurst: Measure 110 started strong, but Oregon still has an addiction crisis, Local Opinion, Portland local Opinion, Breaking Opinion alerts for Portland city.

Advocates say universities and the province need to do more to prevent overdoses as schools reopen.

For the Gworls (International) Asanni Armon, courtesy of For the Gworls If you haven’t already heard of this Brooklyn-based mutual aid fund, then you’ll be thrilled to learn about it now. Created by Asanni Armon, a black genderqueer artist from Atlanta, Georgia and currently based in New York, For the Gworls provides funds to Black transgender people internationally to help with rent, costs related to healthcare, and the cost of gender-affirming surgery.  This project began in 2019 when Ar...

A new partnership between the Grey Bruce Health Unit and the REACH Centre Grey Bruce has formed to produce safe drug use kits. The REACH Centre provid...

The Grey Bruce region continues to see a number of overdoses as a result of opioids. The health unit says they received reports of six overdoses between last Thursday (20th) and this past Sunday. That prompted the health unit to issue an alert on Sunday and at least three more overdoses have been reported since then. None of them resulted in fatalities but there have been ten reported deaths connected to opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil. The health unit says they don’t believe the opi...

The toll of the crisis is felt more in Indigenous communities, on and off reserve.

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is disclosing nine non-fatal opioid overdoses this past week. In a notice to opioid...

Article content The number of deaths in Ottawa due to opioid overdoses nearly doubled in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already worsening drug supply while further compromising the city’s at-risk population through reduced services and greater isolation. The city’s confirmed and probable death toll from opioid overdoses rose to 127 in 2020, from 65 a year earlier, an increase of 95 per cent. The province, meanwhile, experienced a 60 per cent increase, from 1,516 in 2019 to 2,...