The primary half of 2024 noticed almost 3,800 Canadians die from an obvious opioid-related overdose.
That is in accordance with new knowledge from the Public Well being Company of Canada launched on Monday.
The bulk occurred in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. Solely round 18 per cent concerned pharmaceutical opioids akin to fentanyl.
The variety of deaths is down 11 per cent from 2023, nonetheless, it nonetheless averages out to round 21 deaths per day.
Throughout the first six months, there have been over 13,000 emergency division visits associated to opioid poisonings. This comes out to roughly 73 visits a day.
The brand new deaths convey the whole for the reason that begin of 2016 to over 49,000.
