‘Sadness, grief, and outrage’: B.C. marks decade of toxic drug emergency
In 1993, an investigation led by British Columbia’s chief coroner sounded the alarm after recording an “inordinately high number” of drug-related deaths, with 330 reported. More than two decades later, on April 14, 2016, a provincewide public health emergency was declared following a sharp and unprecedented spike in overdose deaths, which reached 997 that year. […]
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