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Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit

Title (Dublin Core)

Indigenous overdose deaths jumped drastically from January to May as COVID-19 crisis hit

Description (Dublin Core)

'Many of our community members have very specifically said they don’t feel safe going to the hospital or even calling for an ambulance for the fear that they will be treated badly and not receive any kind of support beyond the immediate need of treating an overdose,' Shannon McDonald, Acting Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority, said Monday on a video-conference to discuss the data."
indigenous stories, substance use, health care, hospital, public health, government, provincial government

Date (Dublin Core)

July 6, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Wendy Stueck

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Hope Gresser

Type (Dublin Core)

Article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-indigenous-overdose-deaths-jumped-drastically-from-jan-may-as-covid/?cmpid=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
https://web.archive.org/web/20200724173132/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-indigenous-overdose-deaths-jumped-drastically-from-jan-may-as-covid/?cmpid=rss

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The Globe and Mail

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English Healthcare
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

overdose
death
opioid
fentanyl
First Nations
British Columbia

Collection (Dublin Core)

Deathways
Indigenous POV

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/24/2020
01/30/21
06/15/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Indigenous Stories
Canada

This item was submitted on July 7, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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