Hamilton public health will aim to start providing more information about the opioid crisis, including the effects of closing the city’s supervised drug-use site.

At a time when paramedic calls for opioid overdoses are at an all-time high in Hamilton, the board of health passed a motion Dec. 1 to expand public health’s semi-annual update on the situation.

“It is to ask for more,” said vice-chair Ameil Joseph, who brought forward the motion. “If it’s not currently possible, then the idea of the motion is to make new things possible.”

Opioid overdose calls

The report presented to the board showed diverging trends. On the one hand, paramedic calls for overdoses were the highest since reporting began, with 418 responses from July to September.

July set a record at 134 calls — the p

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