More than 1 in 4 deaths among young people in Canada were opioid-related in 2021, study finds | CBC News LoadedMore than 1 in 4 deaths among young people in Canada were opioid-related in 2021, study finds
In Saskatchewan, the death toll for that age group nearly tripled to 424 per million, up from 146 per million, while Alberta's rate spiked more than 2.5 times to 729 fatalities per million, up from 272 per million. Ontario's death rate reached 384, up from 210 per million. "Being slow and not being as nimble as we would like to be in our responses can have really devastating impacts," said Gomes, also lead principal investigator of the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network.
Tanya Hornbuckle holds a photo of her son Joel Wolstenholme, who fatally overdosed at his home in Edmonton on Feb. 6, 2022. "It would happen over and over and then he would call me. I went and stood in line or I drove him there and waited with him in the lineup. They wouldn't have enough beds."
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