More than 2,500 lives lost to toxic drugs in 2023

Posted on: January 24, 2023

Preliminary reporting released by the BC Coroners Service confirms that toxic, unregulated drugs claimed the lives of at least 2,511 people in British Columbia in 2023, the largest number of drug-related deaths ever reported to the agency.

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