More than 8,000 apparent opioid-related deaths in Canada since 2016

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

At least 1,036 Canadians died in the first three months of this year due to apparent opioid overdoses, raising the opioid epidemic's death toll to more than 8,000 people since January 2016, according to newly released government figures.

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