Critics also said before the approval that the province was already asking for too little. The three-year trial begins next year, and the amount Health Canada is allowing – 2.5 grams – is much lower than the province's requested 4.5. The solemn news comes on the heels of an announcement from the federal government that health officials will allow B.C.'s request to decriminalize small amounts of the drugs behind these deaths.
It's an average of 180.5 deaths per month, the second-highest monthly average ever seen in the province.Īnd looking strictly at those four months, this is the highest toll ever seen in B.C.īy this time last year, 721 people had died, a total that, at the time, beat out the previous record by 164 deaths. Coroners Service shows 722 deaths have been attributed to drugs like heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl (and often a combination) between January and April. More people died of illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia in the first third of the year than ever before in the province, just-released data shows, in part because an increasing proportion of street drugs containing benzodiazepines.Ī report from the B.C.
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