A Dauphin Woman Faces Charges In A Drug Bust Last Thursday
A 31-year-old Dauphin woman faces a pair of charges following a traffic stop last week in the city, that resul...
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A 31-year-old Dauphin woman faces a pair of charges following a traffic stop last week in the city, that resul...
THUNDER BAY — The number of opioid-related overdoses in the Thunder Bay area increased significantly from 2019 to 2020. The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre reports that it treated 262 patients for opioid overdoses last year. That's an increase of 39 per cent from 2019, when the hospital handled 188 cases. Statistics relating to opioid-related deaths last year are not fully reported yet. However, between January and September 2020 there were 34 confirmed and 5 suspected deaths in the Thunder Bay area, for a total of 39. By comparison, in the same period in 2019 there were 29 o...