Drug overdoses are a regular occurrence in the city’s historic core and overdose rates have hit record levels in the past few years
often talk about the country’s drug crisis and how to stop it. Addressing his colleagues last May, Senator Tony Dean said that “this epidemic is no longer concentrated in well-known and established drug ghettos in major cities. It is affecting every community, both large and small.” Including, he might have said, Ottawa itself.is striking the very heart of the nation’s capital. Drug overdoses are a regular occurrence in the city’s historic core.
In the late 2010s, “all hell broke loose,” says Rob Boyd, head of Ottawa Inner City Health, which aids the chronically homeless. The number of overdoses averaged 36 a year in the early part of that decade. By the end, it had doubled, reaching 65 in 2019. Then it doubled again to 130 in 2021. The first half of 2022 brought another 54 fatalities.
In November, Ottawa police carried out a bust and seized 2.5 kilograms of fentanyl, enough to make as many as 1.25 million street doses. Bad doses are common. Street fentanyl often contains traces of sedatives, making it harder to revive those who have an overdose. With fewer visitors coming since the pandemic, those with drug, alcohol or mental-health problems stand out. Merchants complain of people sleeping, urinating or using drugs in their doorways.
Ottawa’s opioids problem “has become really, really visible,” says Ariel Troster, the city councillor for Somerset ward, which includes Parliament Hill. “I’ve never picked up so many needles as I have in the last year.”
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