Saving Lives from Opioid Overdose

Saving Lives from Opioid Overdose

Long lags in the testing of street drugs and the heightened risk of overdoses and deaths among users exposed to tainted drugs amid North America’s unprecedented opioid crisis are the target of a groundbreaking partnership between researchers at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa that is piloting the use of a portable mass spectrometer to test drug samples at an Ottawa supervised injection site.

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Tim Kerr

Tim Kerr

One minute he was running on a treadmill—the next he had suffered a brain hemorrhage and a serious stroke, which left him unable to use his left arm or leg, or even sit up straight.

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