From cbc.ca

A Mississauga man whose wife died after years of fentanyl use can't believe the province doesn't track overdoses involving the prescription use of the drug and those involving the illegal street use of such opioids.

Greg Carney, 62, says in the middle of a declared opioid crisis, specifically tracking deaths from prescription use might provide a clearer picture of who is dying in Ontario and how.

That could help save lives, he says.

On the morning of June 16, 2016, Carney found his 60-year-old wife, Ann, on the living room couch. At first he thought she was sleeping and didn't bother her until mid-morning, when he decided it was time for her get  up.

"I tried shaking her and that and when I saw the colour of her skin, I thought something was wrong," he said. When he couldn't find a pulse, he called 9-11. 

Firefighters, police and paramedics arrived, but Carney says there was little they could do. "Paramedics took me into the kitchen sat me down and told me she had indeed passed."

As the family grieved and burial arrangements were made for the mother of three and grandmother of one, the cause of her death remained a mystery.

Six months later, a coroner's toxicology report revealed she had two-and-a-half times the lethal dose of fentanyl in her system. Ann Carney became part of a grim statistic: she was one 76 opioid-related deaths in Ontario that month. 

"How? How did this happen?" her husband asked.

Carney said his wife was not a recreational drug user, which is what many assume is the profile of the typical opioid overdose victim.  She was legally prescribed fentanyl to deal with chronic nerve pain, the result of a botched hip operation. 

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