13 Canadians admitted to hospital daily in 2014-15 for opioid overdose: report
TORONTO — An analysis of opioid overdoses in 2014-15 found 13 Canadians per day were hospitalized after taking pain-killing opioid medications like oxycodone and morphine.
The report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse found opioid-related hospital admissions rose more than 30 per cent between 2007-08 and 2014–15.
Accidental poisonings with opioids accounted for almost half of opioid-related hospitalizations in 2014-15, while intentional overdoses accounted for a third.
Youth aged 15 to 24 had the fastest rising rates of hospital admission for opioid overdoses, which jumped 62 per cent between 2007-08 and 2014-15.