now have more up-to-date numbers on fentanyl overdose deaths, he said, but other opioids aren’t included. And the next time they’ll do exactly the same thing of what they think is heroin and they’re out. Michael Parkinson of the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council in Kitchener, Ont., lamented that no province, territory or the federal government gathers real-time data on opioid overdose fatalities. Coroners Service reported last week that the presence of fentanyl in cases of illicit drug overdose deaths rose from a third in 2015 to nearly 50 per cent so far this year. That’s the natural process of drug prohibition,” he said, dismissing the war-on-drugs policy approach taken by governments as shortsighted and ineffective.

Source: National Post May 23, 2016 09:30 UTC