Medicine Hat sees overdose death rates drop to one of the lowest in Alberta

bwagner@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat recorded one of the lowest overdose death rates in Alberta in 2025, according to provincial figures. The city was nearly tied with Lethbridge for the lowest rate in the province, using numbers from the Alberta Substance Use Surveillance System. Lethbridge’s rate for opioid deaths that period was 10.19 deaths per 100,000 residents,