Promoting measures to prevent drug overdose, in particular opioid overdose

Opioids were involved in 50% of non-fatal overdose incidents and 91% of fatal overdoses.

Opioids were involved in 91% of overdose deaths, compared to 57% of unintentional non-fatal overdose incidents and 4% of intentional non-fatal overdose incidents.

Many of these overdoses were related to fentanyl (Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses, 2017).

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Four hundred and nine drug-overdose incidents required clinical management.

Unintentional overdoses have quadrupled since 2000.

Most overdose incidents at Drumheller were non-fatal and unintentional; 96% of incidents fell under this category, compared to 73% of incidents at all other institutions.

Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses.

International Drug Overdose Awareness Day – August 31

In addition, there has been a disproportionate increase in overdoses among women.

Meanwhile, overdoses from illegal drugs have been rising.

It is often referred to as the antidote to opioid overdoses.

Five fatal overdoses in less than 10 hours in Abbotsford

 Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 47,055 lethal drug overdoses in 2014.