Guelph’s outreach organizations have come up with some creative ideas in response to a spike in drug overdoses amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
There were at least 17 overdoses in the city, including one fatality, to begin the month of May and that was on top of two deaths and five other overdoses at the end of April.
Officials say that’s only the ones they know about because overdoses are usually underreported. “Really what we’re doing as a team of community service organizations is mobilizing together to really look creatively at this new environment under the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Raechelle Devereaux, executive director of the Guelph Community Health Centre “Looking at how we can creatively intervene in more effective ways and