Opioid consumption and overdose have reached record levels in Canada – over 43000 deaths from 2016 to 2023. As this problem is expected to grow, Ontario’s Ministry of Health invested in a publicly funded naloxone program in 2016. Naloxone nasal spray is a drug that can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. With Mark’s guidance, his company, Respect Rx Pharmacy, trained over 250,000 people on how to use a naloxone kit.
Opioid overdose can happen to anyone! Not just with heroin and fentanyl use on the streets but babies who accidentally ingest a pill or seniors who mismanage their own prescriptions.
Mark talks about local drug use trends, the stigma of this epidemic and how a bystander can properly recognize behaviours that place someone at high risk of a drug overdose.
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