Advisory: 
Bootleg Fentanyls in Ontario's Illicit Drug Supply
(August 29, 2016)

Does your pharmacy carry naloxone?

​Naloxone to be immediately distributed to released inmates in Ontario
(well, not exactly - its a card with a phone number, not a medicine)

​Bootleg Fentanyls:
​New Resources from MDSCNO members

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 Celebrating Lost Loved Ones
 Click on the map to post or  find someone lost to an  overdose in Canada or the  U.S.A.
Naloxone Expansion!  New support for Ontario, First Nations, Inuit
Urgent Letter to Premier Wynne and Minister Hoskins (234 signatories, April 2016)

Prescription for Life: Summary Report, June 2015

This report provides key actions urgently needed to improve opioid safety and reduce accidental overdose fatalities and injuries with a focus on expanded access to the emergency first aid medicine naloxone.

Massive increases in opioid prescribing have made Canada a world leader in per-capita prescription opioid consumption and Ontario a leading province in opioid prescribing and high dose opioid dispensing. Ontario has witnessed 13 years of increasing and record-setting opioid overdose fatalities, which now rank as the third leading cause of accidental death, and more than double the number of drivers killed in motor vehicle collisions. More than 5000 Ontarians have died of an opioid overdose since 2000, the vast majority unintentionally. 

​Premier Wynne and Minister Hoskins:
Request for Ontario Overdose Coordinator and Action Plan
(~80 signatories, November, 2015)

On November 2nd, 2015 the Municipal Drug Strategy Coordinator's Network of Ontario alongside almost 80 organizations and professionals in health and medicine call on the Premier and the Ontario Minister of Health to take provincial leadership by establishing an overdose coordinator to expedite recommendations in Prescription for Life and to develop an overdose plan for Ontario.
Request to add naloxone to Ontario Drug Benefit Plan (2013)
Response from Ministry of Health & Long Term Care re: ODB