Toronto Drop-In Network<\/a> (TDIN), saying overdoses at its member sites are up by 288 per cent in the month of June.<\/p>\n\u201cOverdoses are rising sharply in the absence of life-saving supervised consumption services,\u201d said Lennox.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDrop-in programs are doing everything they can, but they were never meant to take the place of overdose prevention services. And while the Ford government dismantled CTSs, what was put in place to supposedly replace them \u2014 HART hubs \u2014 remain incomplete and unable to provide the services that people need.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
G\u00e9linas remarked that overdoses were happening too often in the Sudbury area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my community, we lose two to three people every week to overdoses \u2014 these are our mothers, brothers, daughters, neighbours and friends,\u201d said G\u00e9linas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is not just a social issue; this is a public health emergency. These sites provide life-saving services and treatments. Substance use must be recognized and treated as a healthcare crisis that requires a healthcare response, grounded in medical evidence, coordinated care, and empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n
G\u00e9linas added \u201cthis government is failing people on every single front. Whether that be prevention, treatment, and timely emergency response, they are failing the people of the province.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just because someone survives an overdose doesn\u2019t mean that person is fine, Lennox said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven when someone survives an overdose, we\u2019re seeing serious neurological complications when help comes too late,\u201d said Lennox.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that even non-fatal overdoses can cause serious disability, and are associated with an increased risk of death from subsequent overdose. We need to be treating every overdose as seriously as we treat heart attacks, and that starts with prevention using evidence-based harm reduction practices\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Official opposition health care critics say government move to shut down supervised consumption and treatment sites is leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,21102],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-opioid-overdose-rateshart-hubstoxic-drug-crisissupervised-consumption-site-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}