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Pandemic-like response needed as overdose deaths skyrocket: Experts

Article content Pandemic pressures and toxic drug supplies are fueling an opioid death crisis, social service leaders said Thursday in the wake of an Ontario report showing overdose fatalities skyrocketed in 2020. But there are solutions, if attitudes and policies change, they say. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Pandemic-like response needed as overdose deaths skyrocket: Experts Back to video “The reality here is that we still don’t treat substance use as a health issue. It’s very stigmatized. It’s definitely still treated primarily as a moral and ethical issue,” said Chuck Lazenby, head of the Unity Project shelter in London.

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Opioid-related deaths skyrocket in region

Article content The increase in the number of opioid-related deaths in 2020 compared to 2019 in Nipissing and Parry Sound districts is among the highest in the province, according to unpublished provincial figures. Only two public health districts in the province showed a larger percentage increase over the two years than the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit’s 168 per cent increase. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Opioid-related deaths skyrocket in region Back to video The provincial average was 60 per cent, a report from the Office of the Chief Coroner obtained Thursday by The London Free Press says.

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People are dying on the ground : Doctor speaks out after 4 homeless deaths

Article content An exasperated London doctor is calling out city hall and city residents after four homeless patients died in four days, amid a months-long jump in homeless deaths. “Where is the public outcry? People are dying on the ground in London,” Andrea Sereda, a family physician at the London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC), said Wednesday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or People are dying on the ground : Doctor speaks out after 4 homeless deaths Back to video The four recent deaths, from April 30 to May 3, come only a week after city hall shut down one of two innovative shelters for “high-acuity” homeless people those with the most complex problems and greatest needs without anything to replace it.

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Winter gains against homelessness already rolling back, advocates say

Article content As London’s winter emergency shelters close, hundreds of homeless people perhaps more than ever are expected to move back along the river, streets and open spaces in the city. Already, some people who got help at the innovative winter shelters are homeless again, and losing the gains they made, say leaders in battling homelessness. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Winter gains against homelessness already rolling back, advocates say Back to video Outreach workers say they’re seeing more, new homeless people, and seeing homeless people spread out across the city far from downtown and east London.

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The buddy system: How drug users became amateur medics in Canada s opioid crisis

The buddy system: How drug users became amateur medics in Canada s opioid crisis
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