More than 10,000 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses since a public health crisis erupted in 2016.
File: Historically, opioid overdose deaths -- mainly from fentanyl -- were concentrated among drug addicts.
The latest figures -- 3,200 deaths in the first nine months of 2018 -- show that the powerful painkiller fentanyl remains"a major driver of this crisis," the public health agency said in a statement. Historically, opioid overdose deaths -- mainly from fentanyl -- were concentrated among drug addicts.But the crisis is now also striking people who became addicted to prescribed painkillers before turning to street drugs and others experimenting with recreational drugs for the first time.
Fentanyl is considered 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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