HALIFAX — The scourge that is Canada's opioid addiction crisis was laid bare in the Nova Scotia legislature this week as politicians of every stripe rose to share personal stories about their struggles with this notorious class of drugs.
HALIFAX — The scourge that is Canada 's opioid addiction crisis was laid bare in the Nova Scotia legislature this week as politicians of every stripe rose to share personal stories about their struggles with this notorious class of drugs.
"I remember lying in bed in a fetal position, and I didn't know if I was going to see the morning," he said, gently sobbing as he wiped tears from his eyes. Last year, 62 people in Nova Scotia died from opioid overdoses. And so far this year, the provincial death toll stands at 35. "I will never forget that night, watching her body literally convulsing as these unbelievable, powerful drugs were coming out of her system," Masland said, adding that the opioid replacement clinic at the Queens General Hospital in Liverpool, N.S., saved her daughter's life.
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