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Illicit opioid users are at increased risk

Illicit opioids currently circulating in Porcupine Health Unit territory are more deadly than usual.

The unit’s harm reduction team says that’s because fentanyl is mixed with other substances that increase the risk of overdose and death.

Exact numbers can’t be supplied, but PHU says in the past two weeks, there have been more suspected opioid deaths than in the first six weeks of 2023.

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