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Search the Ontario budget for the words “opioid” or “overdose,” suggests Adrienne Spafford, executive director of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario.
“You will find the words are not there,” she said.
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That’s a reflection of how seriously provincial politicians are taking the opioid crisis and thousands of preventable overdose deaths each year, Spafford said Friday, in the wake of a report showing 2,462 people in the province died last year of opioid overdoses, a 60 per cent jump from 2019.
Fentanyl testing strip program goes province-wide By: Drew May Save to Read Later
Solange Machado, network co-ordinator with the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, is co-ordinating a fentanyl strip pilot project in Brandon. The strips can be used to detect fentanyl in street drugs. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
A pilot project in Brandon to help people test for fentanyl before taking drugs has expanded across the province.
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A pilot project in Brandon to help people test for fentanyl before taking drugs has expanded across the province.
The project, started by the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, supplies people who use drugs with testing strips, which can be used to test for fentanyl in substances, network co-ordinator Solange Machado said.
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Search the Ontario budget for the words “opioid” or “overdose,” suggests Adrienne Spafford, executive director of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario.
“You will find the words are not there,” she said.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Try refreshing your browser, or Ontario failing people struggling with opioid addictions: Provincial group Back to video
That’s a reflection of how seriously provincial politicians are taking the opioid crisis and thousands of preventable overdose deaths each year, Spafford said Friday, in the wake of a report showing 2,462 people in the province died last year of opioid overdoses, a 60 per cent jump from 2019.