Potential solutions for the overdose crisis were developed a ground-breaking summit June 4 and 5 in Surrey. Bringing together more than 60 experts, academics and service providers, the City of Surrey Opioid Summit: From Data to Action stemmed from the multi-agency Opioid Intervention Project the City has been spearheading with Statistics Canada since fall 2017. The project has involved unprecedented inter-agency information-sharing and data analysis, with the intent to understand the factors that lead to an opioid overdose in order to create evidence based policy and programming interventions.
Please find the full report here, https://www.surrey.ca/files/OpioidSummitDataActionMaterials.pdf.