Data, surveillance and research on opioids and other substances
Links to evidence guiding the Government of Canada's response to the overdose crisis.
On this page
- Get the latest data
- Joint statement on the crisis
- Federal actions on opioids
- Reports, studies and surveys
- Provincial and territorial information
Get the latest data
Access the most recent data on opioid- and stimulant-related harms in Canada (Last updated: September 2023)
- Apparent opioid and stimulant toxicity deaths
- Opioid- and stimulant-related poisoning hospitalizations
- Emergency Medical Services responses to suspected opioid-related overdoses
Joint statement on the crisis
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, and Dr. Yves Léger, the Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health of New Brunswick, share their perspectives on these data, the overdose crisis and actions needed to prevent further substance-related harms in Canada.
Read the joint statement (Last updated: September 2023)
Federal actions on opioids
Read about the Government of Canada's actions to address the overdose crisis and help save lives, including:
- government funding for projects
- increased access to treatment and harm reduction programs
- awareness, prevention and enforcement efforts
Read more about Federal actions on opioids (Last updated: June 2023)
Reports, studies and surveys
Read the Government of Canada's studies and published reports on the overdose crisis at the national level.
Public Health Agency of Canada
- Characteristics of patients with repeat hospitalizations for substance-related harms in Canada NEW!
- Modelling opioid-related deaths during the overdose crisis (Last updated: June 2023)
Other reports, studies and surveys
- Substance-related acute toxicity deaths in Canada from 2016 to 2017: A review of coroner and medical examiner files
- Area-level characteristics of substance-related acute toxicity deaths: a descriptive analysis of coroner and medical examiner data
- Canada-U.S. joint white paper: Substance use and harms during the covid-19 pandemic and approaches to federal surveillance and response
- Homelessness and substance-related acute toxicity deaths: a descriptive analysis of coroner and medical examiner data
- Opioid pain relief medication use and mood disorders in Canada: a descriptive analysis of Canadian Community Health Survey data
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome in Canada: a descriptive analysis of hospitalization data
- Substance-related poisonings and homelessness in Canada: a descriptive analysis of hospitalization data
- Opioid-related poisoning and anoxic brain injury in Canada: a descriptive analysis of hospitalization data
- Opioid-related harms and mental disorders in Canada: a descriptive analysis of hospitalization data
- Understanding a broader range of opioid-related hospitalizations in Canada
- Integrating Emergency Medical Service, hospitalization, and death data
- National qualitative study highlights: Insights from coroners and medical examiners
- Impact of the opioid overdose epidemic on life expectancy at birth
Health Canada
Statistics Canada
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Provincial and territorial information
Provincial and territorial differences exist in the impact of the opioid crisis and in their response. To find out more, please refer to the links below:
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Quebec (available in French only)
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Prince Edward Island
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Yukon
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
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