Report finds half of 15- to 24-year-olds had opioid use disorder, meaning many were likely experimenting or using drugs recreationally before they died
Opioid-related deaths surged among teens and young adults in Ontario from 2014 to 2021, according to a new report that also found a sharp increase in the number of young people visiting the province’s emergency rooms because of opioid use.occur in people over the age of 25, the fact that more people the ages of 15 to 24 are dying is a cause for alarm, said Tara Gomes, lead of the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and a scientist at Unity Health Toronto.
“With this really unpredictable drug supply, they’re at really high risk of having a fatal overdose,” Dr. Gomes said. About half of the teens and young adults who died of an opioid-related overdose in Ontario lived in neighbourhoods that make up the two lowest income quintiles in the province. “There are different ideologies and different beliefs,” Dr. Gomes said. “My request would be for people to come together and set aside some of those preconceived notions.”
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