The Ontario Provincial Police say their officers have saved 102 lives using naloxone.
Police have been carrying the drug used to overcome an opioid overdose since September 2017.
In the last two years, OPP note there’s been a 121% increase in the number of overdoses that they have attended.
Police have also laid manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death charges in 13 cases in the last four years.
Eight of them have occurred this year.
Dryden Police officers are also equipped and trained to use naloxone.
