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By The Canadian Press

opioid overdoses

Majority of Alberta opioid overdoses related to fentanyl poisoning

Aug 27, 2019 | 4:02 PM

EDMONTON — A new report says more than 4,300 drug overdoses have been reversed with a 100 per cent success rate through the province’s supervised consumption sites.

The report from the Alberta Community Council on H-I-V says the six sites have seen more than 300,000 visits since opening.

As well, more than 3,700 calls have been averted to emergency services.

But a grim statistic shows upwards of 2,200 people in Alberta have died from opioids since 2016, and of those, 86 per cent were due to accidental fentanyl poisonings.