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Canada's opioid deaths decline 26% but officials say 'much more work to be done'

Opioid deaths in Canada fell 26 per cent between October 2024 and September 2025 compared with the previous 12-month period, according to new data from the federal government. A total of 5,724 ...
BIOENGINEER

Opioid Toxicity Rates Were Higher Following Early Discharge From Ontario Residential Treatment

An Ontario population-based study reveals that clients leaving residential opioid treatment early face increased risks of ...
Psychology Today

New Report on Opioid Prescribing and Deprescribing

While prescribing peaked more than a decade ago, in 2012, a legacy effect is still underway, with widespread misuse of synthetic opioids (chiefly fentanyl) replacing their prescribed counterparts as ...
USA Today

Canada's fentanyl czar warns of newer, more lethal synthetic opioids

WASHINGTON – Canada’s "fentanyl czar" warns that newer, stronger and even more lethal synthetic opioids than fentanyl are increasingly showing up on both sides of the U.S. border and jeopardizing ...
The New Republic

The Populist Approach to the Opioid Crisis Can Save Millions of Lives

The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which policy can alleviate? The current administration has decimated the Substance ...
Vancouver

Adding up the billions of government dollars directed at Canada’s opioid crisis

Since the province declared opioid overdoses and deaths a public health emergency seven years ago, at least 11,807 people in the province have died. Since Canada announced a new drugs and substances ...