Bc Toxic Drug Crisis

• B.C. prohibits illegal drugs from playgrounds, spray and wading pools, skate parks

  This means possession of 'illicit drugs within 15 metres of any play structure in a playground, a spray or wading pool, or a skate park will be prohibited.'

  Health

  Sep 14, 2023
  
• ‘People should be valued’: B.C. on pace for deadliest year in drug crisis

  Nearly half of unregulated drug deaths occurred in private residences, while a third took place in other indoor spaces, such as social housing units, SROs and shelters.

  Health

  Aug 29, 2023
  
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• Vancouver won’t renew lease for controversial, ‘life-saving’ overdose prevention site

  The decision was as a result of "concerns from the community" about "negative impacts" outside the Seymour Street facility, according to Coun. Peter Meiszner.

  Health

  Jul 24, 2023
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• B.C. coroner says fentanyl the main culprit as 184 people died of toxic drugs in June

  Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe says illicit fentanyl is the main culprit driving the crisis in towns and cities big and small across British Columbia.

  Health

  Jul 19, 2023
• B.C. addictions doctor raises concerns about safer supply as minister offers reassurance

  B.C. launched its prescribed safer supply program in the midst of the pandemic, in the fifth year of its seven-year public health emergency declared to combat the overdose crisis.

  Health

  May 26, 2023
• Innovative program helps B.C. patients with overdose-related brain injuries

  The Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation for Substance Use program provides specialized supports for people who use substances including opioids and alcohol.

  Health

  May 25, 2023
• Parents, politicians call for care, compassion on 7th anniversary of B.C. overdose crisis

  Paramedics went from responding to roughly 14,000 overdose calls in 2016 to more than 33,000 in 2022, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services.

  Health

  Apr 14, 2023
• Former B.C. paramedic gives advice on the 7th anniversary of the overdose crisis

  B.C. was the first jurisdiction in Canada to declare a public health emergency over increasing overdoses on April 14, 2016, after overdose deaths reached 474 in 2015.

  Health

  Apr 14, 2023
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• B.C. marks 7th anniversary of overdose emergency with grim record statistics

  B.C. set records in March for the most overdose calls in one day and the most consecutive days where paramedics attended 100 or more poisonings.

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  Apr 13, 2023
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• Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island drug busts net heaps of fentanyl and a stick of dynamite

  A total of seven people were arrested in connection with drug trafficking in Richmond, Vancouver's Coal Harbour, Langford, and Victoria, according to police in those jurisdictions.

  Crime

  Apr 12, 2023