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The pandemic and its resulting restrictions on social and economic life have had a lasting impact on mental health. #opioidcrisis #opioidcrisisawareness #covid19 #opioidoverdose

"The epidemic is claiming victims roughly evenly across most of the working-age population. People in their twenties represented about a fifth of deaths, as did people in their forties and fifties, while those in their thirties made up more than a quarter." #opioidcrisis #opioidoverdoseawareness

The State of New Jersey is providing free Naloxone Sept 24 - 26 in an effort to curb the opioid crisis. https://nj.gov/humanservices/stopoverdoses/ . #naloxonesaveslives

"Helio Health program director Ron Wood says it is too common for businesses to be unprepared when an overdose happens." #opioidcrisis #overdoseawareness

"#Naloxone is considered a Schedule 2 drug in Manitoba, meaning it's not always easy to access."

In the 18 weeks since the COVID-19-related state of emergency was declared for Ontario on March 17, 2020, and physical distancing measures were put in place, 16 of those weeks (or 90 per cent) have had a significantly higher number of suspected drug-related deaths than expected, #opioidcrisis #overdose

International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on 31 August each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death. This is more important than ever. #endoverdose #iOAD2020 #overdoseawareness #stopoverdose

"The opioid use has increased dramatically from April, May, to about now. And the lethality of the drugs that we’re seeing is something that we’ve never seen before." Guest said. #opioidoverdoses #Covid19

"Now #coronavirus looks to be undoing the advances made against a drug epidemic that has claimed close to 600,000 lives in the US over the past two decades. Worse, it is also laying the ground for a long-term resurgence of #addiction by exacerbating many of the conditions, including unemployment, low incomes and isolation, that contributed to the rise of the opioid epidemic and deaths of despair. #opioidcrisis

"The Opioid Emergency Response Task Force has been monitoring the increase in suspected opioid-related overdoses across the Porcupine Health Unit area since April. There has been an ongoing alert shared with community partners and the public."

"They all share one thing in common they've lost loved ones to #overdoses." 1.6 people each day, on average, the first three months of 2020 in Alberta #opioidcrisis

"This is the story of a young single mom who was struggling to get by, and the tragic way that #opioids, it appears, brought it to an end." #depressionisreal #addiction