Posted: Mar 11, 2021 2:32 PM ET | Last Updated: March 11
Blue markings on the sidewalk along Hamilton s downtown library and food market promote physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Hamilton-related case was announced a year ago today.(Bobby Hriistova/CBC)
Paul Johnson, the director of Hamilton s emergency operations centre, remembers the moment he realized people would be living under COVID-19 restrictions for a long time.
Hamilton had already been through a first wave of the pandemic, living through weeks of lockdowns and missed family holidays. In the early days, long serpentine lines had formed at grocery stores to buy dough and toilet paper. Businesses had shortened their hours.
Cameron Steven's mom doesn't sugarcoat her son's life. He had run-ins with police and could be violent, especially when coming off drugs, but the London, Ont., woman wants her son's overdose death to be the start of a conversation about how we're not helping some of our most vulnerable.
Hamilton's opioid epidemic continues to cause deaths, even during the pandemic. And a new report shows more people died from overdoses toward the end of 2020.
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Officials at Chatham-Kent Public Health say they’ll be able to expand outreach services to people who use drugs if their grant application to start a four-year project is successful.
The health unit, along with partners United Way of Chatham-Kent and ROCK Missions, are looking to bring an initiative through Public Health Ontario called Community Opioid/Overdose Capacity Building, or COM-CAP, to Chatham-Kent.
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The grant would provide $75,000 over four years, but only three communities will be selected.
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Chatham-Kent public health officials say they’ll be able to expand outreach services to people who use drugs if their grant application to start a four-year project is successful.
The health unit, the United Way of Chatham-Kent and ROCK Missions are working together to bring an initiative through Public Health Ontario called Community Opioid/Overdose Capacity Building, or COM-CAP, to Chatham-Kent.
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The grant would provide $75,000 over four years, but only three Ontario communities are being selected.