2026-07-22 from ctvnews.ca

TORONTO — Researchers hope a new report examining the occupations of people who have died of opioid overdoses in Ontario raises awareness about the breadth of the population affected by the drug epidemic.

The study found that more than a third of opioid-related deaths between 2018 and 2024 where the person’s occupation was known were people who worked in construction or the trades. That’s roughly 1,340 people.

Overall, opioid deaths in Ontario for that time period totalled nearly 16,000, but the coroner only recorded the occupations in about 22 per cent of the cases.

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