The Windsor Essex County Health Unit has released its Opioid Strategy.
It's based on four pillars: Prevention and Education; Harm Reduction; Treatment and Recovery and Enforcement and Justice.
The 75-page report gives details of those areas as well as statistical support for those stratergies.
It includes data that the Windsor Essex area has 50% more deaths from opioids per-capita than the provincial average.
Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Wajid Ahmed says they'll now form working groups in all four areas..
He says the province has developed strategies as well, but this is tailored for Windsor-Essex.
"Some of these strategies may look high leve, but when you really go down deeper into what would be a workable solution for our community that we need to talk more," says Ahmed. "More to further refine and to get to the place where it's a workable solution for our community"
Ahmed explains that this is not simply a street drug problem, with opioids widely prescribed for pain the issue shows up throughout the community and affects everyone.