Use of medications to treat opioid use disorder fell 50 per cent over those seven years and in\u002Dperson residential treatment fell 73 per cent
During that time, 752 young people died, there were 711 hospitalizations and 5,401 emergency department visits.
Fentanyl was found in 94 per cent of those who died from opioids during the pandemic, up 10 percentage points after COVID-19 came to the province.Article content “The other side of it is that we might be seeing increasing harms because teens and young adults are more likely to be using drugs occasionally,” Gomes said.Article content
She suggested increasing harm reduction options and education, especially the value of carrying around naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, and not using drugs alone.
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