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B.C. minister says intervention paramount on International Overdose Awareness Day

Thursday marks International Overdose Awareness Day, a worldwide campaign to end overdoses, stigmas and remember those who have passed away. ....

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Government Policies Blamed as Toxic Drug Deaths Soar

Another 201 lives were lost in October, and 2021 is already BC’s deadliest year. ....

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B.C. advocates say relaxed drug offence penalties not enough to address rising overdose deaths

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Federal government proposals to relax penalties for personal drug possession are a positive step forward for Vancouver’s former drug czar, but they’re too small to address skyrocketing overdose deaths.
Donald MacPherson, director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition at Simon Fraser University, introduced the city’s drug strategy in the 1990s and the same principles guide the federal approach. ....

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BC's Deadliest Year for Overdoses and a 'Shameful,' 'Unconscionable' Response

Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson said today the deaths were an “insidious impact of the pandemic,” wiping out progress made in 2019.
But advocates and experts say the province’s small, slow steps to address the crisis, even after the potential impacts of the pandemic on overdose deaths became clear, are a slap in the face to the families and friends of the 6,733 people who have died since 2016.
“We have had years to get ahead of this,” said peer advisor Guy Felicella of the BC Centre on Substance Use. “COVID showed how fragile what we had in place already really was.” ....

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