Opioid Harms Data Portal
Since 2019 we have been collecting and analyzing data on local opioid poisonings for the City of Peterborough, the County of Peterborough, Hiawatha First Nation, and Curve Lake First Nation through the Peterborough Opioid Early Warning and Surveillance System. We monitor data in four key areas:
- naloxone distribution in our communities,
- emergency medical service 911 calls for opioid poisonings,
- emergency department visits for drug poisonings, and
- deaths caused by opioid or other drug poisonings.
Data about emergency medical service 911 calls
Data notes and sources
Data is provided by the Peterborough County-City Paramedics. (view source data)
Data about emergency department visits
Data about emergency department visits to the PRHC
The data below represents visits to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) for drug poisonings. It includes drug poisonings experienced by non-Peterborough residents. Data about these emergency department visits is used to help us understand more about drug poisonings that are happening locally.
Data notes and sources
Data was provided by the Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance system. (view source data)
Data about deaths
Data notes and sources
Data was provided by the Peterborough County-City Paramedics, Peterborough Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario. (view source data)
Data includes:
- deaths that have been confirmed by a coroner to have been caused by a drug poisoning; and
- deaths that are suspected to have been caused by a drug poisoning based on the situation surrounding a person’s death
Numbers will change if an investigation determines that the death wasn’t caused by a drug poisoning.