MONTREAL — Eight overdoses over a few hours in downtown Montreal this weekend reflect how homeless Indigenous people have started consuming hard and unsafe street drugs, says the head of a shelter that serves the vulnerable community.
The overdoses, which sent six people to hospital, are being investigated by public health authorities and police.
Johnston said six people who overdosed on Sunday used her organization's services."My understanding is there were two people who were not Indigenous and the rest are all people who are from the Indigenous community who we know and who are staying at the shelter," she said. A spokesman for Urgences-santé, Montreal's ambulance service, said that following a 911 call shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday, paramedics treated six people for overdoses. Four of them, including two who were in critical condition, were sent to hospital. Following a second 911 call – about an hour later from the same location – paramedics treated another two people, who were also sent to hospital, Sébastien Coulombe said.
Last November, she said, a 30-year-old man at the shelter who had been struggling with addiction and mental health for most of his life died of an overdose."That was a big wake-up call and a big shock. Since then we've had several other overdoses and a couple of deaths," she said.
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