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As overdose deaths spike, Ontario’s top doctor says the opioid crisis is ‘complicated.’ Advocates disagree.

“It’s not complicated. People are dying, and they don’t need to,” Toronto Board of Health Chair Joe Cressy said.

Published Jun 23, 2020 at 5:21pm

As overdose deaths spike, Ontario’s top doctor says the opioid crisis is ‘complicated.’ Advocates disagree.

TORONTO, ON – JANUARY 27 – Dr. David Williams, the province’s chief medical officer of health, centre, Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, left, and Dr. Barbara Yaffe, the associate chief medical officer of health, during a news conference to update the second apparent case of coronavirus in Canada, January 27, 2020. Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star

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