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Please be advised, this survey is no longer active. For overdose related data in Waterloo Region including previous alerts, overdose bulletins, and data on overdose-related deaths, please visit the Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy website here.

If you would like to report a tainted substance in the community, or unusual side effects to a common drug, email the Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy.

If you are experiencing distress as a result of an overdose or would like to speak to someone about addictions, mental health support, or crisis services please contact Here 24/7 at 1-844-437-3247 or visit their website at www.here247.ca.

Need Naloxone?

If you or someone you know uses substances, they may be at risk for an overdose.  Naloxone is medication that temporarily reverses an overdose. Naloxone can safe a life and is available free-of-charge at many local pharmacies and through a number agencies in Waterloo Region. For updated hours and locations of Naloxone Distribution Programs please visit the Region of Waterloo website.

Naloxone Distribution Programs in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge 

Waterloo

Region of Waterloo Public Health and Emergency Services

2nd Floor, 99 Regina St. South, Waterloo

519-575-4400

Wed, Thu, and Fri – 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Kitchener

ACCKWA – Safepoint Needle Exchange Program

5-1770 King St. East, Kitchener

519-570-3687

Sanguen Community Health Van

Call or text The Van

519-591-4826

ACCKWA at St. John’s Kitchen

2nd floor, 97 Victoria St. North, Kitchener

519-745-8928

oneROOF Youth Services

242 Queen St. South, Kitchener

519-742-2788 ext. 207

Towards Recovery Clinic Kitchener

1145 King St. East, Kitchener

519-579-9647

OATC Kitchener

509 Park St., Kitchener

519-746-1919

OATC Kitchener East

1253 King St. East, Unit 4, Kitchener

519-279-6078

Cambridge

Region of Waterloo Public Health and Emergency Services

150 Main St. East, Cambridge

519-575-4400, Wed, Thu, and Fri – 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

ACCKWA Satellite Office (c/o Cambridge Self-help Food Bank)

2nd Floor, 54 Ainslie St. South, Cambridge

519-622-6550

The Bridges (across from Shoppers Drug Mart)

26 Simcoe St., Cambridge

519-624-9990

OATC Cambridge

150 Main St., Cambridge

519-624-6311

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