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B.C. records highest number of overdose deaths in May

BY , Jun 11, 2020 8:19 PM - REPORT AN ERROR

British Columbia has recorded the highest number of illicit drug overdose deaths in a single month.

The coroner's service says 170 people died in May, as concentrations of the deadly opioid fentanyl have increased.

It says the number of deaths last month were 93 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Nearly 45-hundred people have fatally overdosed on fentanyl in B.C. since 2016, when the province declared a public heath emergency.


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