Opioid Crisis Bc

• Group of northern B.C. First Nations declare state of emergency over opioid crisis

  Carrier Sekani Family Services and 11 chiefs are calling on the federal and provincial governments to fund a new healing and treatment centre for their communities.

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  Oct 26, 2021
  
• OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reaches tentative opioid crisis settlement

  Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said the agreement included more money from the Sackler family, which had become a sticking point during the recent talks.

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  Sep 11, 2019
  
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• Activists furious after RCMP break up Maple Ridge overdose prevention site

  The group Alliance Against Displacement had set the site up at 22548 Royal Cres. as a part of a call for the establishment of a formal supervised consumption site in the city.

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  Jun 6, 2019
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• B.C.’s top doctor urges province to decriminalize possession of hard drugs to address overdose crisis

  Dr. Bonnie Henry says the evidence shows that criminalizing people who use drugs does more harm than good.

  Health

  Apr 24, 2019
• Opioid-tainted cocaine suspected amid weekend spike in Lower Mainland overdoses

  Paramedics were called to 122 suspected overdose calls in the region between Friday and Sunday. 

  Health

  Mar 4, 2019
• BC Coroners Service releases expanded findings of overdose deaths

  The BC Coroners Service released a comprehensive report on drug overdose deaths between 2016 and 2017.

  Sep 27, 2018
• ‘We never made it to tomorrow’: Squamish family mourns 15-year-old’s opioid overdose death

  "People just ask why, why wasn’t there something else that could have been done?" her father asked.

  Health

  Feb 15, 2018
• BC government launches overdose response centre at VGH

  "We are escalating our response, not just to prevent overdose deaths today, but to get at the very heart of the crisis so that no one has to lose another loved one," said Mental Health and Addictions Minister Judy Darcy.

  Dec 1, 2017
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• $322M of new opioid crisis spending in B.C., and much of it is going to the cops for now

  $31.3 million of the new money will go to law enforcement.

  Sep 29, 2017