A newly-created data dashboard shows that the Quinte Region continues to have a high percentage of opioid over...
The Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Headquarters, on North Park Street in Belleville.
The data, which was introduced at Wednesday’s meeting of the Health Unit Board, indicates that this year there have been six deaths from suspected drug overdoses and 42 emergency room visits for opioid poisonings, an increase over this time last year which had 31 visits. She tells Quinte News that typically it has been males but in recent years they are seeing more suspected poisoning in females. The demographics of this problem are also changing and the difference between males and females isn’t as large as it used to be.
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