Mon Jan 16, 2023 – 12:47 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Canadian deaths from substance abuse reached record highs during the COVID lockdowns.
Statistics Canada has released information on provisional death counts and excess mortality for the period of January 2020 to October 2022, a time of draconian restrictions enacted in Canadian provinces.
Recent data released by Statistics Canada on Thursday paints a grim reality of Canadians dying from alcohol and drug abuse during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The report shows that in 2020 3,790 deaths due to alcohol related issues were reported, and that number grew to 3,875 by 2021.
These numbers represent a significant increase from 2019, for which 3,200 alcohol-induced deaths were recorded.
The increase in deaths caused by alcohol represents an almost 20 per cent rise in such deaths, the “largest year-over-year change in alcohol-induced deaths seen in at least the last 20 years.”
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