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Drug deaths climb here, even as they drop elsewhere

The death rate from toxic drugs continues its relentless climb in the Interior Health Authority. The authority’s board heard that message from Interior Health’s medical health officer Dr. Carol Fenton ....

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Innovative program helps B.C. patients with overdose-related brain injuries - BC

The Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation for Substance Use program provides specialized supports for people who use substances including opioids and alcohol. ....

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First Nations drug users six times more likely to die of overdose in B.C., data finds

First Nations people represent 3.3 per cent of B.C.’s population, but the health authority said 16.4 per cent of those who died from overdoses last year were Indigenous. ....

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First Nations drug users six times more likely to die of overdose in B.C., data finds

First Nations people represent 3.3 per cent of B.C.'s population, but the health authority said 16.4 per cent of those who died from overdoses last year were Indigenous. ....

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Parents, politicians call for care, compassion on 7th anniversary of B.C. overdose crisis - BC

Paramedics went from responding to roughly 14,000 overdose calls in 2016 to more than 33,000 in 2022, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services. ....

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