Rates of specific causes or types of death by geographic area

Mean Annual Substance-related Fatality Rate per 100,000 Population by Drug Type (Filter by Drug Type, Health Zone of Residence, Manner of Death)

Mean Annual Substance-related Fatality Rate per 100,000 Population by Health Zone of Residence (filter by drug type).

This dataset contains frequencies, rates, and proportions that describe drug toxicity deaths in Nova Scotia over time and space and by certain demographic and contextual characteristics. See usage considerations for further details on these data.

Numbers and rates of suicide fatalities in NS by year, month, sex, and health zone of residence.

Frequencies and rates of driver deaths by substances detected through postmortem toxicology, vehicle type, year, demographics. 

This graph describes the proportions of drug toxicity deaths where manner was certified as accident in terms of whether any opioids, stimulants, both or neither contributed to the toxicity death. Percentages by category are presented for accidental toxicity deaths in Nova Scotia each year.
Please note that many toxicity deaths have multiple drugs certified as the cause of the toxicity death (i.e. multi-drug toxicity caused death).

This graph describes the living situation at the time of death of those who died of drug toxicity in Nova Scotia each year. See the attachment in the source data page https://data.novascotia.ca/Health-and-Wellness/Numbers-and-rates-of-substance-related-fatalities-/iu6y-z4n3 for the classifications and definitions of the types of living situations summarized here.

This graph describes the context of the drug toxicity event in terms of whether the individual was known to have been using substances or known to have been intoxicated prior to toxicity death for those who died of drug toxicity in Nova Scotia each year. See the attachment in the source data page https://data.novascotia.ca/Health-and-Wellness/Numbers-and-rates-of-substance-related-fatalities-/iu6y-z4n3 for the classifications and definitions for whether others were present and/or aware of drug use by the decedent at the time of the death event summarized here.