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Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit

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Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit

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'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

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The Globe and Mail

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07/07/2020

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07/24/2020
01/30/21
06/15/2021

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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”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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