A Opioid Strategy has been launched by the North East Local Health Integration Network.

The LHIN received 1.6 million dollars which will be divided up among the sub-regions to expand and create Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinics.

An additional 200 thousand will go to Health Sciences North who will be the lead agency.

The money will help combat the growing needs of people with addictions to opioids…in December we spoke with Dr. Mike Franklyn who says Northern Ontario has the highest opioid addiction numbers in the world.