Saskatchewan Federation of Police Officers 73 Number of Deaths 2017 RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION 20.0 and higher 15.0 - 19.9 10 - 14.9 5.0 - 9.9 0.0 - 4.9 Suppressed Number (January to September) and estimated annual rate (per 100,000 population) of apparent opioid-related deaths by province or territory, 2017. + Includes data from July to September only. For 2017 data, Quebec reports deaths related to all illicit drugs including, but not limited to, opioids. This number is expected to rise. a British Columbia reports deaths related to all illicit drugs including, but not limited to, opioids. * The estimated annual rates for 2017 are based on available data from January to September 2017. www.canada.ca An average of 16 Canadians are hospitalized every day for opioid poisoning, and the national hospitalization rate for this type of poisoning has gone up 53% over the past 10 years. Pan-Canadian data on opioid-related harms is an urgent priority for the public health sector’s emergency response to the opioid crisis, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people across the country. OPIOIDS IN CANADA CIHI is committed to providing key data on prescription opioids - which include commonly known types such as fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine, codeine and hydromorphone - through a variety of reports and programs. Prescribing of Opioids Canada is the second-largest per capita consumer of opioids, but the amount of the drugs people are getting in each prescription is actually going down. Opioid-Related Harms The opioid crisis in Canada is putting increasing pressure on the country’s health care systems. Amount of opioids prescribed dropping in Canada; prescriptions on the rise The overall amount of opioids Canadians are getting in their prescriptions is dropping, while the number of prescriptions for the drugs is rising amid the ongoing and deadly opioid crisis, new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows. The total number of defined daily doses for opioids declined slightly less than 5% from 2012 to 2016 across Canadian provinces, while the overall number of prescriptions increased almost 7%. Opioids - which include well-known types such as codeine, oxycodone, morphine and fentanyl - are used as a painkiller and can be highly addictive. “Opioid prescriptions for acute pain should be for a short time period only, with ongoing reassessment for repeat prescriptions.” said Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer for Nova Scotia. These trends are consistent across most of Canada, and the rate of decline has accelerated with heightened awareness of the opioid crisis. “Between the prescribing, hospitalization and emergency room data, there are some alarm bells that we need to pay attention to.” Here are some of the key findings of CIHI’s report on opioid prescribing in Canada: continued
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