In the article titled “Opioid deaths skyrocket, mental health suffers due to pandemic restrictions, new federal report says”, written by John Paul Tasker and published on October 28, 2020 by CBC News, Tasker goes on to explain that restrictions and lockdowns have been linked to more opioid deaths and a mental health decrease in most Canadians. Tasker states that over the past year, 1,202 people have died in fatal overdoses in B.C alone and that smoking rates went up 3.9% as well as alcohol consumption increasing by 19% in these past 8 months. With the Premier of Quebec, Francois Legault…