Alcohol, drugs helped drive excess mortality during pandemic: Statistics Canada

Alcohol and drug use killed more people during the pandemic in Alberta and across Canada, new Statistics Canada data show.

Nationwide, there were 2,357 excess deaths from the middle of April 2022 to the middle of May 2022, or 8.4 per cent more deaths than expected.Article content

Accidental poisonings killed more young people than old people in 2020 and 2021, with 2,640 individuals in Canada aged 45 or younger perishing in this manner in 2020 and 3,600 in 2021. Meanwhile, just 580 folks 65 or older died in the same way. Francescutti said he sees people on a daily, even hourly, basis presenting with various substance abuse issues. But “there’s not enough beds.”

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