BC Opioid Crisis

• ‘Absolutely devastating’: Recovering user reflects on B.C.’s worst year of the opioid crisis

  The BC Coroners Service reported 201 suspected deaths from illicit drug toxicity in October — the province’s deadliest month on record.

  Health

  Dec 10, 2021
  
• B.C. government announces new addiction treatment services

  Fraser Health is getting new addictions medicine teams that will offer expertise to hospital-based patients.

  Health

  Nov 9, 2021
  
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• Record toxic illicit drug deaths in B.C. show 1,534 people have died this year: coroner

  The BC Coroners Service says 181 people died in August and 152 in September, record figures for both months, bringing the number of fatalities since the start of the year to 1,534.

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  Nov 9, 2021
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• Canadians state increasing concern about opioid crisis in new survey

  The survey found that 45 per cent of respondents described prescription and non-prescription opioid drug use in their community as “a major problem."

  Health

  Nov 5, 2021
• B.C. formally asks Ottawa for exemption to decriminalize illicit drug possession

  B.C. has officially submitted its application to become the first province to ask Ottawa for the exemption from Health Canada.

  Health

  Nov 1, 2021
• B.C. premier pledges more funding to address police shortage of naloxone

  B.C.'s naloxone supply is depleted, forcing some police agencies to buy their own supplies of the overdose-reversing drug.

  Health

  Sep 24, 2021
• Mother of deceased teen actor Logan Williams says B.C. children’s ministry failed her son

  Williams died of a fentanyl overdose in April 2020 while in the care of B.C.'s Ministry of Children and Family Development.

  Canada

  Sep 14, 2021
• Toxic drug supply continues to take toll on Okanagan

  The Okanagan’s death toll was 69 from Jan. 1 until the end of June, putting the region on track to have one of its worst years for illicit drug deaths.

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  Aug 31, 2021
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• B.C. reports at least 160 overdose deaths in May

  May marked the 15th straight month with more than 100 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths in B.C.

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  Jun 29, 2021
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• 5 men overdose on bench at Vancouver’s English Bay Beach

  The men were all passed out on a bench in English Bay, police said, and when officers arrived they all either had shallow breathing or were not breathing at all.

  Health

  Jun 28, 2021