Ottawa's seeing a downward trend in both suspected fatal drug overdoses and related hospital visits since they peaked in 2023 ...

The B.C. Coroners Service and provincial government have released the occupations of those who died from 2022 to 2024.

Deaths due to toxic drugs in British Columbia are down about 40 per cent from their peak, falling below 150 in both May and ...

In Alberta, the 2024 rate of drug poisoning is 29.4 per 100,000 people (ending September), which is a significant decline from 45.1 in 2023, the deadliest year on record for the Western province ...

6.2: Average deaths per day. At least 11,171: Deaths attributed to drug toxicity since the public health emergency was declared in April 2016. 70: Percentage of the dead between 30 and 59 years old.

According to Moms Stop the Harm, 2,900 people have died due to drug related harms in Saskatchewan since 2010. Drug Toxicity Deaths 2024 – 229 (as of July 31) 2023 – 460 2022 – 368 2021 – 406 ...

Tuesday, Aug. 31 is international Overdose Awareness Day and in B.C., it is a day to remember the lives lost due to drug overdoses. In the first half of 2021, at least 1,011 people died from ...

The drug toxicity public health emergency is fraught with emotion and ideology. Too often, politics and public opinion have replaced evidence as the basis for policy and legislative measures.