Etiket: overdoses
Opioid overdoses: first phase of teacher training completed
Some 2,300 high school teachers in four Canadian provinces are now able to train their students to respond to an opioid overdose. A little less than 800 of these teachers…
Overdoses on the rise among adults in their 20s and 30s in Canada
A quarter of deaths among adults in their 20s and 30s in Canada in 2021 were caused by opioids, according to a new study published Monday in the Canadian Medical…
Animal tranquilizer behind Belleville overdoses
A substance used as an animal tranquilizer by veterinarians is likely at the heart of the twenty drug overdoses that occurred over two days in Belleville, Ontario, last week. According…
Stimulant-Related Overdoses | Fighting a crisis without adequate data
What is the extent of psychostimulant overdoses in the province? Impossible to say. The National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ) has not published data on these deaths since…
Opioid crisis | Three overdoses in an abandoned building in downtown Montreal
Three people were found unconscious on Friday in an abandoned building in the Centre-Sud district of Montreal, likely linked to opioid overdoses. The event once again highlights the seriousness of…
Stimulant overdoses: death with indignity
The most recent survey of Duty challenges preconceived ideas regarding drug consumption, giving us the image of a society incapable of adequately naming evil and ensuring equal treatment of people…
Wave of overdoses in downtown Montreal | “I miss my best friend so much”
At the corner of Saint-Dominique and Ontario streets, in the heart of downtown Montreal, the indigenous community is struggling to recover from the death of Sindy Wabanonik. The mother succumbed…
Overdoses in downtown | Woman in her 40s dies
A woman in her forties who was part of the group of numerous victims of overdoses potentially linked to fentanyl, which occurred earlier this week in the city center, lost…
Multiple overdoses in Montreal: One of 6 victims dies in hospital
One of the six people who suffered simultaneous overdoses last weekend in downtown Montreal died in hospital, police authorities confirmed. • Read also: Montreal Public Health opens an investigation into…
An investigation is opened into a wave of overdoses in Montreal
The Montreal Regional Public Health Department is conducting an investigation following the wave of overdoses that occurred in the city center this weekend. Five of the six victims are out…
Nine overdoses in downtown | Montreal Public Health opens an investigation
Montreal Public Health launched an investigation on Monday into the nine people who had to be transported to hospital on Sunday, in downtown Montreal, for overdoses potentially linked to fentanyl.…
Downtown Montreal | Nine overdoses in one day
Nine people, including seven homeless Indigenous people, had to be transported to hospital on Sunday in downtown Montreal for overdoses potentially linked to fentanyl, a tragedy destined to repeat itself…
Multiple overdoses downtown | The Press
At least four people were transported to hospital, including two in critical condition, following a series of overdoses that occurred in downtown Montreal on Sunday afternoon. Montreal police have opened…
Greater Montreal | Over a million to prevent overdoses
(Montreal) The Minister responsible for Social Services, Lionel Carmant, announced on Friday an additional $1,452,000 to prevent overdoses, which are on the rise in Greater Montreal. For the organizations concerned,…
Ottawa | Paramedics report more toxic drug overdoses than before
(OTTAWA) Calls for drug overdose cases have become a daily occurrence in Ottawa and paramedics say they are concerned about the growing toxicity of the drugs. Posted at 8:41 a.m.…
Explosion in the number of overdoses among adolescents
(Washington) The number of overdoses among adolescents aged 10 to 18 more than doubled in the United States between 2019 and 2021, according to a study published Thursday by American…
Ludivine Reding’s character unconscious in STAT: what is naloxone, the antidote to opioid overdoses?
Monday evening, in the series STAT, Sophia St-Jean, the character played by Ludivine Reding, is administered naloxone after being found unconscious by first responders. But what exactly is naloxone? We…
Overdoses | The underside of a great report
The journalist Philippe Mercure published last Saturday the great report “The invisible epidemic”, on the scourge of overdoses in Quebec. He tells here how he has led this project since…
For a city without overdoses
In Quebec and across North America, overdoses have reached epidemic proportions. In the province, from July 2021 to June 2022, 490 people lost their lives to this other epidemic. Over…
Overdoses | Stigma during bereavement
The author reacts to Rima Elkouri’s column “Isabelle and her little vixen” 1 evoking the death by overdose of a young student of 24 years. Posted at 12:00 p.m. Josee…