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Alberta overdose response app opens provincewide after ‘numerous’ interventions

A smartphone app designed to help prevent drug overdoses in Alberta is now available provincewide, nearly a year after its initial release. The Drug Overdose Response System, or DORS, allows …

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Alberta’s opioid-related overdoses still at record highs compared to pre-pandemic

Despite seeing the lowest number of monthly opioid-related deaths in March, overdose deaths are still trending at record-high levels in Alberta. On Friday, the Alberta government reported that 120 people …

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Group of national clinicians, researchers lambastes report informing Alberta’s safe supply committee

Dozens of doctors and researchers are calling a paper being used by the Alberta government for drug policy direction “flawed,” saying it is “unhelpful and potentially dangerous.” At issue is …

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