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OPP Busy With Opioid Overdoses

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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.

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Opioid Crisis In North Needs Attention

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There is another call for the Ford government to do more to help with the opioid crisis in northern Ontario.

NDP MPP Jamie West explains there is only one overdose prevention site, and that is located in Thunder Bay.

“The government needs to stop ignoring the north. It needs to ensure that people and families in crisis have access to overdose prevention as well as treatment and care.”

West has introduced a private members bill demanding the province declare a public health emergency.

He stresses it’s time for the government to fight this epidemic and saving lives in northern Ontario.

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Methamphetamine And Opioid Charges In Dryden

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Provincial Police in Dryden are reporting multiple drug charges after a search warrant in Dryden.

Police say on Wednesday at 7:26pm officers from the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Community Street Crime Unit and the Dryden Police Service executed the search warrant at a residence in Dryden.

Police then say they seized a quantity of Crystal Methamphetamine and Oxycodone worth an estimated $600.

Provincial Police go on to say 35-year-old Shawn Polny and 21-year-old Ashlee Shine of Dryden have been charged with:

  1. Possession of a Schedule I Substance – Methamphetamine contrary to Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act.
  2. Possession of a Schedule I Substance – Opioid contrary to Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act.

Police also say 27-year-old Chastity Brown has been charged with:

  1. Possession of a Schedule I Substance – Opioid contrary to Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act.

2. Fail to Comply with Recognizance contrary to Section 145(3) of the Criminal Code.

OPP say all of the three accused have been released on a Promise to Appear in court in August and September.