In British Columbia, toxic drug policy kills almost 6 people every single day (5.9 every day so far in 2021). Between January 2016 and December 2020 over 21,174 Canadians died due to substance use related harms. Our local Community Action Team (CAT) is recognizing these lives and providing information on the opioid crisis through a number of events on and leading up to
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“As a daughter she was stronger than me,” said Londono, 31. “When I was sad, she’d make me get out of bed and say: ‘Mama, toughen up and do your makeup. She would mother me when I needed her. I know that’s not what a kid should do, but I was so grateful for her.” Allayah was born on Feb. 11, 2009 weighing about six pounds in a High River, Alta. hospital where her Colombian grandmother worked as a lab technician. The family had moved there from Colombia when Londono was about seven. Shortly after her first child’s birth, Londono returned to Calgary where, with the same partner, she became pregnant six months later with Allayah’s sister.
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Poisoned drugs are now the fifth-leading cause of deaths in B.C. just behind cancer, stroke, heart disease and diabetes, and above COVID-19, according to modelling presented earlier this month.
And the rate of deaths this year is at its greatest since data recording began with 38 people dying per 100,000 in the population. In 2020, the rate was 33.5 people per 100,000.
Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health regions continue to see the highest total deaths with 137 and 171 so far this year respectively.
But northern B.C. is bearing the highest per-capita toll at 56.7 deaths per 100,000 and
41 deaths this year.
On the five-year anniversary of the province’s first and longest public health emergency earlier this month, Malcolmson announced B.C. would formally seek permission from Ottawa to decriminalize drugs for personal use.
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