Toxic Drug Death

• Island Health testing overdose-detecting sensors in select washrooms

  The health authority has installed the motion detecting sensors, which track how long a person has occupied the bathroom and whether they are moving at six high-risk locations.

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  Mar 17, 2023
  
• Advocates warn of alarming rise in toxic drug deaths among B.C. international students

  The president of a Surrey gurdwara says he knows of four deaths this month alone, and that his temple has spent $200,000 returning victims' bodies to India in the last two years.

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  Jan 17, 2023
  
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• Nearly 1,500 drug deaths in B.C. this year, including 5.5 per day in August

  The coroners service in British Columbia says nearly 1,500 people have died this year from illicit drug use in the province.

  Health

  Sep 28, 2022