Victoria/Fraser Valley – It is the broken record on repeat, another bad month for OD Deaths in BC. Chilliwack has already surpassed their 2019 numbers, Abbotsford is on track to do the same. The BC Coroners Service has published updated…
Victoria – COVID has been the main health focus in 2020, but overdose deaths from illegal drugs has claimed more lives. The order, issued under the Health Professions Act, from Dr Bonnie Henry PHO (Provincial Health Officer) authorizes registered nurses…
Vancouver – The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), in partnership with regional health authorities and Lifeguard Digital Health, has updated Lifeguard App to include a number of new life-saving features designed to save the lives of those who might die from…
Fraser Valley – On May 5, Island Health issued an overdose alert to addicts and drug users, of a tainted supply of street drugs and that the number of fatal and near-fatal OD’s were spiking. After an FVN inquiry to…
Fraser Valley – Vancouver/Victoria – The BC Coroners Service has published updated reports on illicit drug toxicity deaths and fentanyl-detected drug deaths for the first six months of 2020, with 175 illicit drug toxicity deaths reported in June. Abbotsford, Chilliwack,…
Coast Salish Territory/Fraser Valley – The toll of the illicit drug toxicity crisis on BC First Nations individuals is rising again this year, erasing previous gains, according to data released today by the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). Suspected illicit drug…
Fraser Valley – Fraser Health’s chief medical health officer has released a new report that describes an increase in drug toxicity deaths in young adults, women and South Asian men in the Fraser Health region. The report, developed after reviewing…
Victoria – A new 24/7 helpline for clinicians will provide health-care providers around British Columbia with live, in-the-moment addiction medicine support, while they are treating patients. This comes on the heels of the latest Province wide overdose warning and troubling…
Vancouver/Fraser Valley – The latest BC Coroner report summarizes all unintentional illicit drug toxicity deaths in British Columbia (accidental and undetermined) that occurred between January 1, 2010,and May 31,2020, inclusive. In May 2020, there were 170 suspected illicit drug toxicity…
Victoria/Fraser Valley – The BC Coroners Service has published updated reports on illicit drug toxicity deaths and fentanyl-detected drug deaths to the end of April 2020. Ironically this is released n a Welfare Wednesday and Pension cheque day, where traditioanlly…