Opioid overdose deaths spiked in Toronto last month, with 18 people losing their lives
The number of deaths last month exceeded any month this past winter except for November, and exceeded all other months dating back to Sept. 2017.
The number of deaths corresponds with an increase in the number of calls for suspected non-fatal opioid overdoses, which exceeded300 in February for the first time since Sept. 2018. An earlier public health report found the highest number of overdose sufferers were men between the ages of 30 and 39, with more than 600 instances of men in that age group suffering opioid overdoses in Toronto between Aug. 2017 and Aug. 2018.Officials say preliminary information from the first nine months of 2018 shows 193 deaths suspected of being caused by opioid overdose.
But in the neighbourhoods most heavily impacted by opioid use — Moss Park, the Church-Yonge Corridor and the Bay Street Corridor — bystanders use naloxone to assist victims between five and eleven per cent of the time.Numerous pharmacies, shelters and other community organizations in the city
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