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Health unit warns of spike in Windsor opioid cases

Health unit warns of spike in Windsor opioid cases

🕔14:38, 4.Nov 2019

The Windsor-Essex Community Opioid and Substance Strategy (WECOSS) has issued an alert due to an increase in emergency department visits related to opioid usage. The alert, a result of a surveillance and monitoring system, notified the health unit of 11

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Support can keep you alive

Support can keep you alive

🕔12:28, 5.Apr 2019

By Eleanor Dhillon Windsorites hoping to set up a local safe injection site are upset about the government cutting funding to many sites around the province. A mock site was launched in Windsor at the beginning of August 2018. It

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Life in the time of opioid addiction in Windsor, Ont.

Life in the time of opioid addiction in Windsor, Ont.

🕔07:23, 17.Feb 2018

  The front door of a middle-class Canadian suburban home yawns open, late on a weekday morning. The frail figure of a woman beckons me in. Clinging to her leg in the musty smelling hallway is a redheaded toddler who

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