Latest National Data on Substance-Related Harms & Cure

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Ottawa – The co-chairs of the federal, provincial, and territorial Special Advisory Committee on Toxic Drug Poisonings—Dr Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, and Dr Yves Léger, New Brunswick’s Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health—issued the following statement on the release of the latest surveillance data on opioid and stimulant-related harms in Canada from January 2016 to December 2023. The …

Modelling projections for opioid-related deaths to Dec 2023

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Ottawa – The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released new modelling projections of the number of opioid-related deaths that may occur in the coming months. The results of the model suggest that, under some scenarios, the number of opioid-related deaths through to December 2023 may remain high or may decrease, but not to levels seen before the onset of …