Urgences-santé has launched a new project aimed at improving access to medication for people at risk of opioid overdose. The project, which is already underway, allows Urgences-santé paramedics to provide naloxone kits to people suspected of experiencing opioid intoxication outside a health-care facility. In collaboration with Santé Québec, Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal Hospital, and Montreal Public Health, each kit contains two doses of intranasal naloxone, an instruction sheet, and information on overdose prevention. This project is one of several efforts to help combat the overdose crisis in Montreal, Urgences-santé told CTV News. It comes after Montreal public health officials issued a warning in July about fatal overdoses involving carfentanil, following eight new deaths since its previous overdose alert in April. Health officials say paramedics have administered naloxone more than 925 times since the start of the year, compared with more than 25 times in all of 2025.
