Something appears to be working because the past two reports now show significant declines in the numbers of young people, and adults, who have died from drug deaths
I have to admit being harsh on the provincial government, when it comes to drug deaths from overdoses ... but more importantly from deliberately poisoned drugs that I feel the government is not dealing harshly enough in ensuring that those manufacturing the poison, get HARSH jail terms. That said, something appears to be working because the past two reports now show significant declines in the numbers of young people, and adults, who have died. Here is the most recent report from the BC Coroners Service, regarding updated reports on illicit drug toxicity deaths and fentanyl-detected drug deaths to the end of June 2019. Key preliminary findings of these drug death reports are below. Data are subject to change: In June there were 73 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths, a 35% decrease from the number of deaths in June 2018 (113), and a 15% decrease from the number of deaths occurring in May 2019 (86). There were approximately 2.4 illici...