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CANADA, March 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Opioid overdose deaths skyrocketed 120% across Canada in the third quarter of 2020 compared to 2019, making it the highest quarterly opioid death count since national surveillance began in 2016.
According to the figures from Health Canada updated this month, 1,705 people died from opioid overdose between July and September last year compared to 776 in the same three-month frame a year earlier.
In the six months immediately following implementation of COVID-19 ‘social distancing’ and lockdown measures by health authorities, opioid overdose deaths soared 74% across the country. Between April and September of last year, 3,351 people died opioid overdose deaths – up from 1,923 in the six months prior.
In what is being called a “shadow pandemic” that has been ignored by mainstream media in favor of non-stop COVID coverage, the number of deaths and hospitalizations from opioid drug abuse are actually higher than deaths and hospitalizations from coronavirus in some regions in Canada.
More deaths than COVID
The province of British Columbia Coroners Service reported in December that 1,548 British
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