Province expands harm reduction project for B.C.’s construction industry

The province will spend $1-million to expand a pilot project that helps construction workers and their employers, learn the signs — and dangers — of drug addiction and illicit drug use. The province says almost a quarter of employed people who died of toxic illicit drugs worked in the construction industry. Catherine Urquhart reports.

• B.C. expands program aimed at preventing overdose deaths in construction industry