- Half a year after the Canadian province of British Columbia decriminalized a wide range of hard drugs, including fentanyl, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for the majority of Canadians in the region.
- In a press release on Monday, the office of Public Safety and Solicitor General said that 1,018 British Columbians were “lost” to drug overdoses between January and May, which represents a 2.9% increase since the same time last year.
- “Unregulated drug toxicity is now the leading cause of death in British Columbia for people aged 10 to 59, accounting for more deaths than homicides, suicides, accidents and natural disease combined,” the press release stated.
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