Coroner sounds alarm on overdoses
The Quebec coroner is sounding an alarm on drug overdoses. There were 23 deaths in Montreal in July linked in some way to street drugs – and most of them were stimulants, not opioids.
-
Kate
Reply
SANTÉ QUÉBEC COVID NUMBERS
Deaths in Quebec:
20,034
As of May 15
Numbers from Santé Québec
Updated irregularly now
Canada Covid epidemiology update
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Kate on Body forgotten in Vic ER
- Kate on Caserne 26 to reopen
- PatrickC on Notes for the long weekend
- carswell on Caserne 26 to reopen
- Rick on Charkaoui escapes hate charges
- Joey on Body forgotten in Vic ER
- MarcG on Falcons hatch on UdeM tower
☠️
INCIDENT TOTE BOARD 2024
Island homicides
11
Pedestrians killed
5
Cyclists killed
0
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Twitter feed that follows environment news.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
Max 06:58 on 2020-08-07 Permalink
I imagine the suicide rate is through the roof these days too. But that’s not something you’re likely to read about in the media.
Kate 09:07 on 2020-08-07 Permalink
I wonder whether the city’s public health would even reply if asked about it.
Kevin 10:02 on 2020-08-07 Permalink
There has been some modelling that suicides may go up because of the rise in unemployment (at least one paper out of University of Toronto, but it’s a mathematical projection).
It’s just too early to tell. We haven’t had unemployment like this in a century, but this time our government reacted pretty damn quickly to provide people cash, and there has been a LOT of talk about mental resilience etc…
Kate 10:17 on 2020-08-07 Permalink
Global reports on a chef who has killed himself: the pandemic basically obliterated his business. But the number of suicides will have to be studied in retrospect to see what the excess numbers look like.
Max 17:38 on 2020-08-07 Permalink
Here’s a really depressing story about an over-achiever NYC ER doctor that cracked under the strain. From the New York Times about a month ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavirus.html
I’m not doing so well myself these days, but hey, at least I’m not in Beirut.