Opioid and Stimulant Harms in Canada from National Surveillance Reports

Surveillance reports provide information on opioid- and stimulant-related harms in Canada, including deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and emergency medical services responses. The Public Health Agency of Canada collaborates with provinces and territories to collect and share this data to provide a national picture of the public health impact. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-09.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in overdose-related deaths based on national surveillance reports.
• Model correlations between emergency department visits and stimulant-related harms based on reported data.
• Assess the geographic distribution of hospitalizations for opioid-related harms based on provincial/territorial data.
• Evaluate the public health impact of the overdose crisis based on aggregated national indicators.

Strengths

• Data is produced by the Public Health Agency of Canada, an authoritative national health body.
• Covers multiple harm indicators: deaths, hospitalizations, emergency visits, and EMS responses.
• Last updated on 2026-04-09, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Public Health Agency of Canada

Collection Method

Collected from provinces and territories via surveillance reports.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:33:40.695000.

Geography

Canada