10/3 podcast: Canada's fentanyl crisis now claiming the lives of babies and toddlers

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Opioid poisonings have killed tens of thousands across Canada, the vast majority of them adults.

But, in a heartbreaking group of cases, babies and toddlers have fallen victim to fentanyl or its more toxic cousin carfentanil.

National Post health reporter Sharon Kirkey joins me to discuss how many young children have died from opioid overdoses, how they’re winding up in the position to overdose to begin with and what some want to see done to try to prevent deaths like these.

Background reading: Canada’s fentanyl crisis now claiming the lives of babies and toddlers

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