Hospital stays for opioid overdoses on the rise, warn health researchers | Will Tazewell

Hospital stays for opioid overdoses on the rise, warn health researchers | Will Tazewell

https://willtazewell.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/hospital-stays-for-opioid-overdoses-on-the-rise-warn-health-researchers/





Slow breathing. A lack of oxygen. Blue discoloration. For Ottawa paramedic JP Trottier, the telltale symptoms of an opioid overdose are becoming all too common. "Our paramedics find the patient hypoxic, blue in colour … they’re breathing at four or six …



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Hospital stays for opioid overdoses on the rise, warn health researchers