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The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.7:20 p.m.: Drug use and alcohol, and not COVID-19, are largely to blame for an excess of deaths in Canadians younger than 65 from March last year to April 2021, new research suggests stanley thermos mug .The figures are partic stanley thermos mug ularly bleak in Ontario and Alberta, where deaths last year from accidental poisonings 鈥?a te botella stanley rm that includes unintentional overdoses from illegal and prescription drugs as well as alcohol and solvents 鈥?accounted for most of the countrys increase over previous years. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The deaths pushed up the mortality rate in that category to a peak higher than what occurred in Canada during the opioid crisis in 2017, according to the research by Statistics Canada.Alcohol-induced mortality rates were also on the rise in 2020 in Canadians younger than 65. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW One of the major factors leading to the increase in overdose deaths is an unsafe drug supply, says Kevin Shield, who lost his uncle to a fentanyl overdose in Toronto at the beginning of the pandemic. A lot of drug use in Ontario could be misuse of prescription drugs, says Shield, an Independent Scientist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and head of WHOs Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health at CAMH. ARTI Oqwf What s going on here New Muay Thai gym coming to downtown Kemptville
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