Opioid’s death in Canada fell 17% in 2024, but thousands are still dying
According to a new report, Opioid’s death declined by 17 percent in Canada in Canada last year, but this decreasing does not decrease equally across the country.
Canada’s public health agency released the most recent data Opioid toxicity deaths Showing in 2024, on average, 20 people lost their lives per day. In 2023There were 22 deaths per day. Last year, 7,146 people lost their lives.
On Thursday, the Canadian Center on Mustis Use and Addiction (CCSA) stated that despite a clear decrease, the total number of people who died of opioid in the supplies of toxic drug is very high.
It is not known why the mortality rate is decreasing in many places, although CCSA noted that there was a decrease in powerful carfentanill among the samples investigated, and there was a change in inhalation by injection.
Samantha King, a research and policy analyst with CCSA in Ottawa, said that the decreasing deaths are still very high, when the British Columbia declared Opioid -related overdose death as a public health emergency. In 2016,
The king said in an interview, “This is not the time to leave the ball in terms of decrease in loss or allocate in treatment.”
According to a Public Health Agency in Canada, opioid mortality in 2024 declined by 17 percent in 2023. However, the number is more. DJ Larkin, Executive Director of Canadian Drug Policy Alliance, says that supervised consumption sites and addressing the underlying social factors are important to maintain the decline.
Map the changes
BC, Alberta, Suskechewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Breanswick and Yukon showed the overall decrease in unconfirmed opioid deaths.
But in Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Northwest Territories, OPOOid -related deaths increased from 2023 to 2024.
The situation is largely unchanged in Nova Scotia and Pei, the king said.
At mercy of medicine supply
Street Health of Toronto has run a small care site since 2018.
Kelly White, a non-profit manager of loss in losses, said, “We are still watching thousands of people in this country dying of stopping deaths. And it’s not something I think is easy pretense.”
White said their customers are at the mercy of the street drug supplies, which differ over time with a decrease in the deaths of this spikes and overdose.
Fentanyl and similar opioids, more powerful like CarfentanilNow it can be less common, White said. But, they are looking at more animal tranquilizers, which is known as TankIn supply.
Like animal tranquilizer xylazine And Medetomidine Phantenyl may not cause similar respiratory depression, but people’s heart chains may be very low, and they can develop Bear woundsWhite said.
“We are really constantly catching.”
Lisa Red Quad died in September. She was 48 years old. She had a feeling but was struggling with addictions in her adulthood.
Expert Dr. Dr. Monty Ghosh said that he was worried that Canada must have reached a plateau on the deaths from Opioid Overdose.
“People (who) were most likely to die, already dead, which is a very terrible and sick view,” said Ghosh, assistant professor of both the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.
He said that a multi-dimensional approach is needed.
“One day people are ready for treatment and treatment and they need to use treatment immediately,” Ghosh said. “The next day they are still using, they have changed again, in this case they require support for loss in loss to ensure that they do not overdose and die.”
The supply of medicine is given so many times border controlGhosh said, the new drug cartel entered into market and drug wars.
Dan Werb, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Assessment Center at St. Michael Hospital in Toronto, blamed drug smuggling organizations to change his dishes responsible for the decrease in opioid overdose deaths.
“I am really ready to see these cuts in drug overdose deadly, it is quite disappointing for me that in the health crisis that defines this generation 10 to 15 years, we are relying on drug smuggling outfits that people decide whether people live or die or die,” Verb said.
