Health Reports

A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research

March 2023

Exploring the intersectionality of characteristics among those who experienced opioid overdoses: A cluster analysis

by Kenneth Chu, Gisèle Carrière, Rochelle Garner, Keven Bosa, Deirdre Hennessy and Claudia Sanmartin

Canada continues to experience an unregulated drug toxicity crisis primarily involving opioids. There was a total of 32,632 apparent opioid toxicity deaths between January 2016 and June 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to this crisis by indirectly affecting the health of Canadians as a result of changes to the drug supply; reduced access to services; and increasing feelings of isolation, stress and anxiety. During the first year of the pandemic (from April 2020 to March 2021), 7,362 deaths occurred, representing a 96% increase from the same period the year preceding the pandemic.

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