The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health has issued an alert for Saskatoon after the city saw 104 overdoses within a single week, including two deaths on Monday.

The Saskatoon Fire Department reported a sharp rise in overdoses between November 11 and Tuesday. In several cases, reviving the patients required multiple doses of naloxone, a nasal spray used to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. But with naloxone only countering opioid symptoms and not those of other substances, the intervention wasn’t always effective.

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