Tag: Overdose prevention
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Health Canada Ignored Expert Advice on Expanding Safe Drug Access
Overview: A policy standoff at Health Canada Newly disclosed internal documents raise questions about Health Canada’s approach to the ongoing opioid crisis. The materials suggest that health policy experts advised expanding access to safe, regulated drugs as a tool to reduce overdoses and save lives, but senior officials chose a more cautious path. The revelations…
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Public Health Sudbury Issues Urgent Drug Alert Over Heavier Sedation in Local Overdoses
Public Health Sudbury Issues Urgent Drug Alert Over Heavier Sedation in Local Overdoses Public Health Sudbury and Districts, in collaboration with Sudbury’s Community Drug Strategy, has issued a warning to residents about a troubling trend: recent drug poisonings in the Sudbury area have involved heavier levels of sedation, and authorities are uncertain why this shift…
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Xylazine Crisis: Zombifying Drug Wounds and Overdoses
What is Xylazine and why is it alarming? Xylazine, commonly known as tranq, is a potent animal sedative that has quietly moved from veterinary clinics to the streets. Although it was first developed in the 1960s as a medicine for controlling blood pressure, it never became a human-approved drug. In recent years, it has appeared…