By Austin Evans Writer The third annual Overdose Awareness Day event showed the support open to Six Nations residents struggling with addiction. Lethal opioid overdoses have become more and more common since 2020. In Ontario deaths increased from 1,554 in 2019 to 2,461 in 2020. Each year from 2021 to 2023 had more deaths from opioid overdoses than 2020. Eve Kahama, manager of the Harm Reduction Action Outreach Program explained the increased presence of fentanyl in other drugs has made overdosing much more common. “It’s pretty high here, but the same thing is echoed everywhere,” she said. “Especially with the toxic drug crisis that we have now, people are seeing fentanyl in their crystal meth, people are seeing fentanyl in their opioids. It makes the risk of overdose quite bad.”…
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