Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
CJEM. 2020 Nov;22(6):768-771. doi: 10.1017/cem.2020.459.
Deaths due to opioid overdose have reached unprecedented levels in Canada; over 12,800 opioid-related deaths occurred between January 2016 and March 2019, and overdose death rates increased by approximately 50% from 2016 to 2018.1 In 2016, Health Canada declared the opioid epidemic a national public health crisis,2 and life expectancy increases have halted in Canada for the first time in decades.3 Children are not exempt from this crisis, and the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada has recently prioritized the prevention of problematic substance use among Canadian youth.4.
在加拿大，阿片类药物过量导致的死亡人数已达到前所未有的水平；2016 年 1 月至 2019 年 3 月期间，发生了超过 12800 例与阿片类药物相关的死亡事件，2016 年至 2018 年期间，过量死亡率增加了约 50%。1 2016 年，加拿大卫生部宣布阿片类药物泛滥是全国性的公共卫生危机，2 几十年来，加拿大的预期寿命增长首次停止。3 儿童也不能幸免于这场危机，加拿大首席公共卫生官最近将预防加拿大青年出现问题性物质使用作为优先事项。4
