London Free Press

London police chief urged to ‘set record straight’ on safe supply programs

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The jump in opioid pills hitting London’s streets started when several pharmacies began dispensing them, the health unit says, a finding that suggests federal Conservatives and other critics targeting the older Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) program are missing the mark. “There was a notable increase in hydromorphone prescribing from 2023 onward. There was not a […]

Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey-Bruce’s 25th opioid alert of 2024 issued; another fatality reported

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Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an opioid alert for the 25th time in 2024 after, over a recent 24-hour period, there were three suspected drug poisonings, including one fatality.  The local health unit issued the alert to its community partners and people who use unregulated substances on Tuesday after receiving notification of the suspected […]

London Free Press

Friends speak out after death of man, 33, found unresponsive in London jail

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The man who died after he was found unresponsive in his cell at London’s troubled provincial jail faced previous trauma and abuse in the justice system, but never stopped trying to improve his life, his friends say.   Friends have identified the man found unresponsive at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre on Thursday as Matthew Bouvier, 33, […]