Drug Overdoses in Ottawa’s ByWard Market District Surged by Over 200 Percent in 2023

Published on August 28, 2024

Ottawa police have reported a major increase in drug overdose cases in 2023 in a neighbourhood adjacent to Parliament Hill, with calls for police service rising by more than 200 percent. Overdose-related calls in the ByWard Market neighbourhood, a retail and entertainment district in the downtown core, surged to 467 last year, up from 144 in from the previous year, according to data from Ottawa police. The increase is more substantial when compared to the earliest available data from 2018, when 77 overdose cases were recorded. A similar trend of increased overdose calls also occurred in Centretown, another neighbourhood adjacent to Parliament Hill, where the number surged by 127 percent to a high of 182 calls in 2023, according to Ottawa police....

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