- Public Health Ontario’s Substance Use and Harms Tool
- Ontario Drug Policy Research Network’s Ontario Prescription Opioid Tool
- Durham Region’s Opioid Information System
- Toronto’s Drug Checking Service
- The Government of Canada’s Health Infobase: Opioid- and Stimulant-related Harms in Canada
- Peterborough Drug Strategy (PDS)
Dashboard - Opioid Harms Data Portal - City and County of Peterborough
Since 2019 we have been collecting and analyzing data on local opioid poisonings for the City of Peterborough, the County of Peterborough, Hiawatha First Nation, and Curve Lake First Nation through the Peterborough Opioid Early Warning and Surveillance System. We monitor data in four key areas:
- naloxone distribution in our communities,
- emergency medical service 911 calls for opioid poisonings,
- emergency department visits for drug poisonings, and
- deaths caused by opioid or other drug poisonings.
Data About Emergency Medical Service 911 Calls
Emergency medical services respond to 911 calls for people experiencing opioid poisonings in our community. Data about these 911 calls is used to help us understand more about trends in local opioid poisonings.
Data Sources:
Data is provided by the Peterborough County-City Paramedics. (view source data)
Data About Emergency Department Visits
The data below represents Peterborough region residents’ visits to an Ontario hospital emergency department for drug poisonings. It includes drug poisonings that occurred anywhere in Ontario. Data about these emergency department visits is used to help us understand more about how local residents are affected by drug poisonings.
Data Sources:
Data was provided by the Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance system. (view source data)
Data about emergency department visits – all PRHC ED visits:
Data About Deaths
Emergency medical services respond to 911 calls for people experiencing opioid poisonings in our community. Data about these 911 calls is used to help us understand more about trends in local opioid poisonings.
Data Sources:
Data was provided by the Peterborough County-City Paramedics, Peterborough Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario. (view source data)
Data is preliminary
Information on drug poisoning deaths is based on preliminary data.
Data includes:
- deaths that have been confirmed by a coroner to have been caused by a drug poisoning; and
- deaths that are suspected to have been caused by a drug poisoning based on the situation surrounding a person’s death
Numbers will change if an investigation determines that the death wasn’t caused by a drug poisoning.
Opioid-Related Harms Status Reports
We produced public Opioid-related Harm Status Reports on a quarterly basis from 2019 to 2021 until the Dashboard was developed. These reports highlight opioid-related harms experienced by the legacy Peterborough Public Health (now Lakelands Public Health) area residents (people who live in the City of Peterborough, the County of Peterborough, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation).
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