Ontario to set up an opioid emergency task force
Posted October 4, 2017 12:15 pm.
Last Updated October 4, 2017 12:24 pm.
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Ontario is establishing an opioid emergency task force to provide advice on how to combat the growing overdose crisis.
The provincial government says the task force will include front-line workers in harm reduction, addiction medicine, and community-based mental health and addiction services to provide what it describes as “critical insight about what is happening on the ground.”
It says the task force will support the province’s coordinated response to the crisis, which claimed the lives of 865 people in Ontario last year.
It will also advise the government on a targeted public education campaign to raise awareness about the risks associated with opioid use and how people can protect themselves from overdose.
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