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More than 2,200 died of opioids in Ontario last year as numbers trend downward: data

Published Jun 5, 2025 at 10:48am

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More than 2,200 died of opioids in Ontario last year as numbers trend downward: data

Fentanyl is heated in sterile water using a cook kit in a consumption room at Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service, in Toronto, on Thursday, Jan.9 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows.

"What goes through my head is a small degree of optimism in the fact that we have seen less people die last year, which is very good, but that's within a context of 2,231 people dying last year," Dr. Dirk Huyer, the chief coroner, told The Canadian Press in an interview.

His office had recorded 2,639 opioid deaths in 2023.

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