Naloxone distribution

Figure: Naloxone doses distributed, by month and distributor, Sudbury and Manitoulin districts, 2018–2025

A graph showing the total number of doses of Naloxone distributed by Réseau ACCESS Network, Public health and its community partners in each month from January 2018 until January 2025, as well as the number distributed by local pharmacies. The pharmacy data are not yet available for recent months. The counts for individual months are provided in two tables, below. The rolling 3-month average for each count are shown trendlines. The number of doses distributed each month by Réseau ACCESS Network, Public Health and its community partners has increased significantly since early 2020, from about 1000 doses per month on average in the early part of that year to a high of almost 3600 doses per month in the summer of 2024. The number of doses distributed fluctuates throughout most years, with peaks in the late summer. The number of doses distributed by local pharmacies is much lower, ranging between 500 to 800 doses per month on average since 2018.

Table: Naloxone doses distributed by Réseau ACCESS Network, Public Health and community partners (excluding pharmacies), by month, Sudbury and Manitoulin districts, 2018–2025

Month	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
January	170	571	790	851	1228	1958	2202	1410
February	170	667	601	1898	1283	1763	1652
March	170	955	1046	2363	1979	1859	2558
April	215	832	873	1668	1333	2004	2456
May	417	878	943	2243	1697	2262	2618
June	758	881	1073	2618	1961	2468	2770
July	696	817	1416	2762	2256	2848	3296
August	549	935	1215	2624	1762	2886	4090
September	813	842	2186	2340	1936	3018	2798
October	418	797	1630	2120	1680	3178	2936
November	477	760	1833	1565	2250	1968	2224
December	501	1012	1832	1876	2192	2070	2198
TOTAL	5354	9947	15 438	24 928	21 557	28 282	31 798	1410

Table: Naloxone doses distributed by pharmacies, by month, Sudbury and Manitoulin districts, 2018–2025

Month	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
January	228	504	534	612	480	568	706
February	252	362	482	592	564	726	718
March	312	492	428	706	566	1062	822
April	424	538	880	640	574	520	846
May	442	680	474	584	896	708	720
June	734	594	446	752	442	758	658
July	428	580	486	556	456	720	688
August	498	678	522	712	528	1014	782
September	396	538	570	748	542	818	944
October	462	490	728	738	300	442	664
November	422	554	724	998	374	538	836
December	440	528	708	676	564	516	286
TOTAL	5038	6538	6982	8314	6286	8390	8670	0

Note:

Counts, especially those from recent months, are preliminary and subject to change.
Pharmacy data are not yet available for recent months.
Data on counts of doses distributed by the Réseau ACCESS Network were only available by quarter from January 2018 to June 2019. These quarterly counts are assumed here to have been distributed equally in across the 3 months comprising each quarter in that period.

Sources: 1) Public Health Sudbury & Districts naloxone distribution program data [unpublished], accessed March 20, 2025, 2) Réseau ACCESS Network naloxone distribution program data [unpublished], accessed March 20, 2025, 3) Ontario Naloxone Program for Pharmacies data, Ministry of Health, received February 18, 2025.

This item was last modified on March 26, 2025