Item
Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit
Title (Dublin Core)
Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit
Description (Dublin Core)
'Many of our community members have very specifically said they don’t feel safe going to the hospital or even calling for an ambulance for the fear that they will be treated badly and not receive any kind of support beyond the immediate need of treating an overdose,' Shannon McDonald, Acting Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority, said Monday on a video-conference to discuss the data."
indigenous stories, substance use, health care, hospital, public health, government, provincial government
Date (Dublin Core)
July 6, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Wendy Stueck
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Hope Gresser
Type (Dublin Core)
Article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
The Globe and Mail
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Health & Wellness
English
Healthcare
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Social Issues
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
overdose
death
opioid
fentanyl
First Nations
British Columbia
Collection (Dublin Core)
Deathways
Indigenous POV
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/07/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/24/2020
01/30/21
06/15/2021
This item was submitted on July 7, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
Click here to view the collected data.