Ontario jail giving naloxone to inmates upon release

Friday, December 30, 2016 - 11:51 in Health & Medicine

Inmates released from the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre are being given naloxone kits to combat opioid overdoses. Research shows that the rate of death from overdose is more than 50 times higher in the two weeks following a release from custody.

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