Western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta remain the hardest hit, with 1,155 and 613 deaths in the first nine months of 2018, respectively
An officer with the Ontario Provincial Police holds bags containing containing fentanyl during a news conference in Vaughan, Ont., on Feb. 23, 2017.More than 10,300 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses in less than three years, according to new national data, an ominous figure that suggests efforts to curb the crisis are falling short.
The numbers come as jurisdictions across the country struggle to get a handle on the crisis. The provincial responses vary widely. In B.C., health officials are pushing expanded harm reduction and the idea of decriminalization of drugs to contend with the flow of illegal toxic fentanyl.
She said that expanding access to supervised drug-use sites and making treatment options available seem to have helped keep the rate level for opioid overdose deaths in her province. In 2018, the overdose death rate in B.C. was 30.9 per 100,000, similar to 2017, when it was 30.7 per 100,000. In Alberta, the death rate rose to 19 per 100,000 in 2018 compared to 17.5 per 100,000 in 2017.
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