A homeless Canadian with a drug addiction, Luc Laplante has lost three friends -- Dave, Emily and Pat -- to opioid overdoses in the last three months of the coronavirus pandemic.
A homeless Canadian with a drug addiction, Luc Laplante has lost three friends — Dave, Emily and Pat — to opioid overdoses in the last three months of the coronavirus pandemic.
“People have been applying for the government COVID-19 aid, using it to binge on drugs and overdosing,” he said, just hours after surviving a dangerously high dose of fentanyl himself. The Ontario coroner estimates fatal overdoses have shot up by 25 percent in the last three months. In British Columbia, deaths increased by 40 percent over the same period last year.“Tragically, other jurisdictions across the country are reporting similar trends,” Canada’s chief public health officer Theresa Tam said last month.
Laplante, 37, a bent cigarette dangling from his lips and with dirt wedged beneath his fingernails, said he was alone in an empty parking lot when he shot up Monday night.
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