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Belleville declares addiction emergency after latest overdose surge
CBC ^ | Feb 8, 2024 | Dan Taekema

Posted on 02/10/2024 1:49:12 PM PST by Reverend Wright

Eastern Ontario city says 23 people overdosed since Tuesday afternoon

Overdoses are rising — but resources to help are scarce, Belleville, Ont., mayor says

Neil Ellis, mayor of Belleville, Ont., says his community doesn't have nearly the resources they need as overdoses rise. When people in his community are hit with an overdose, he says, they are 'admitted to the hospital and put back out on the streets.'

Mike Juby was outside Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon when people suddenly started dropping to the sidewalk all around him.

There were "ambulances left, right and centre" as paramedics loaded people onto stretchers and rushed them to hospital, he recalled.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: drugoverdose; fentynal
This shows how far the fentanyl problem has spread.

Canada now has, proportionally, as many overdose deaths as the USA.

Belleville has 55K people, and is approx half way between Ottawa and Toronto.

It used to be prosperous, small town Ontario on the Seaway, and now it has a huge drugs and homeless problem.

Of course, Trudeau the Corruptor's solution to the drug problem is drug legalization.


1 posted on 02/10/2024 1:49:12 PM PST by Reverend Wright
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To: Reverend Wright

Well, on the brighter side, I think I found my missing puzzle piece!


2 posted on 02/10/2024 1:55:42 PM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: cuban leaf

Excellent...I know how annoying that can be.


3 posted on 02/10/2024 2:06:19 PM PST by xp38
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To: Reverend Wright

Extra-strong Thai heroin killed a bunch of addicts in DC for a while.
Fentanyl seems to be so powerful that it has to be precisely measured to a milligram-level almost.
I’m not so sure the boyzindahood can handle that.


4 posted on 02/10/2024 2:08:55 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

Actually, fentanyl is dosed in micro-grams.


5 posted on 02/10/2024 2:19:53 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: Reverend Wright

I guess the new shipment came in and the cut was a little weaker.


6 posted on 02/10/2024 2:36:45 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: RetiredTexasVet

The most-sensitive laboratory scales I used could do 0.0001 oz. Not even close to a microgram.


7 posted on 02/10/2024 2:47:00 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Reverend Wright

new supplier???


8 posted on 02/10/2024 3:21:47 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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