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DoseCheck – MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions

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DoseCheck is the world’s first consumer-level, drug-checking technology designed specifically for people who use drugs and frontline service providers. Fentanyl and other ultra-potent opioids, often in combination with other drugs, have triggered a surge in overdose deaths. Opioid use accounted for one in six deaths of young adults in Ontario before COVID-19; after the pandemic, rates of overdose mortality have increased. In British Columbia, ground zero for this epidemic, the magnitude of overdose deaths has reversed Canadian life expectancy for the first time since the 1960s. In the most hard-hit provinces—British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario—more people have died of overdoses since the fentanyl era began in 2016 than have died of COVID-19. This is a national public health crisis. Unlike the pandemic, however, Canada has failed to mount an all society response, despite the fact that overdose mortality disproportionately victimizes young people. One of the main reasons people are dy

Project Overview --> DoseCheck is the world’s first consumer-level, drug-checking technology designed specifically for people who use drugs and frontline service providers. The challenge Fentanyl and other ultra-potent opioids, often in combination with other drugs, have triggered a surge in overdose deaths. Opioid use accounted for one in six deaths of young adults in Ontario before COVID-19; after the pandemic, rates of overdose mortality have increased. In British Columbia, ground zero for this epidemic, the magnitude of overdose deaths has reversed Canadian life expectancy for the first ti

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