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Opioid death rate in Algoma nearly three times provincial average

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Northern Ontario health units continue to experience the worst effects of the opioid crisis. Thunder Bay District Health Unit is worst in Ontario for Q3, with a rate of over 16 deaths per 100,000. Algoma has recorded the second-highest death rate in the province. Between January and September of 2023, a total of 29 people were confirmed to have died from opioid toxicity in Sault Ste. Marie alone.

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Opioid death rate in Algoma nearly three times provincial average

Fluorofentanyl, a fentanyl analogue, was rarely detected among opioid toxicity deaths from 2021 to 2022; last year it was present in 21 per cent of recorded overdose deaths

3 months ago·Sault Ste. Marie, United States

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