CTV News – Kitchener Vigil
KITCHENER — A vigil took place in Kitchener’s Victoria Park on Friday night to honour an 18-year-old who died of a drug overdose in February. […]
The Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council (WRCPC) reports 70 people have died of suspected drug overdoses so far this year, most involving opioids.
On average, three calls a day are made to 911 reporting an overdose.
“We’ve had 21 consecutive years of increasing opioid related overdoses in Ontario,” said Michael Parkinson of the council. “We are seeing direct workers from a variety of agencies, we’re seeing paramedics really burning out because the steady stream of death is unrelenting.”