B.C. has recorded nearly 500 toxic drug deaths in 2021 so far

A man stops to read messages attached to shoes hung on the Burrard Bridge in remembrance of victims of overdose deaths on International Overdose Awareness Day in Vancouver on Aug. 31, 2020.Toxic drug deaths killed 158 people in British Columbia last month, pushing the total number of deaths linked in the province’s overdose crisis to 498 since the start of the year.

The deaths also mark the third consecutive month that more than five people died every day from illicit drug use in the province.The coroners service says carfentanil, which is 100 times stronger than the opioid fentanyl, is linked to 48 deaths so far this year, compared with 65 for all of 2020.

decriminalise....clean up the supply ...simple!

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