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Deaths from opioid use in Ontario have doubled – from 13.7 deaths per million residents in 1991 to 27.2 deaths per million residents in 2004 – according to a new study led by physicians at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Toronto…

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