🔪😱😈 New Data Insights: What's Driving the Decrease in Opioid Toxicity Deaths in Canada?

🔪😱😈 New Data Insights: What's Driving the Decrease in Opioid Toxicity Deaths in Canada?

Friday, 15 August 2025 02:25.PM
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- New data reveals a promising 17% decrease in opioid toxicity deaths across Canada in 2024, though concerns remain high due to regional disparities. -

Data from June 2025 show a 17 per cent national decrease in apparent opioid toxicity deaths in 2024, compared to 2023. Despite this decrease, deaths remain high across the country, with regional variation and some provinces and territories experiencing increases or renewed increases.

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), in partnership with the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use and the Public Health Agency of Canada, will be releasing the latest issue of its Substance Use Trends in Canada newsletter on August 28, 2025.

The issue sheds light on possible factors contributing to the decrease, drawing on data and perspectives from across Canada.

SOURCE: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction

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