B.C. Coroners Service reports ’significant decline’ in #drugdeaths | Vancouver Sun https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-drug-deaths-decline “B.C. has recorded its lowest monthly number of illicit #drugoverdose deaths in more than four years, part of what the #BCCoronersService says is a “significant decline” in fatalities this year.
.unregulated toxic drugs remain the leading cause of unnatural death in B.C. for those ages 10 to 59, and account for more deaths than homicides, suicides, accidents and natural disease combined”
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Global News BC: ‘An honour to serve’: B.C.’s chief coroner to retire in February https://globalnews.ca/news/10152288/bc-coroner-lisa-lapointe-retirement/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCCoronersService #BCChiefCoroner #LisaLapointe #Canada
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The Tyee: How to Protect the Mental Health of Farmers https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/04/Protect-Mental-Health-Farmers/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #CanadianCentreforAgriculturalWellbeing #canadianmentalhealthassociation #AndriaJonesUniversityofGuelph #MinistryofAgricultureandFood #DoMoreAgricultureFoundation #farmworkermentalhealth #B.C.MinistryofHealth #BCCoronersService #ChrisSchultz #MegzReynolds #AgSafe #AgTalk
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The Tyee: BC Updates Its Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Guidelines https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/24/BC-Updates-Opioid-Use-Disorder-Treatment-Guidelines/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #BCAssociationofPeopleonOpiateMaintenance #EastKootenayNetworkofPeopleWhoUseDrugs #opioidusedisordertreatmentguidelines #BCopioidusedisordertreatment #BCCentreonSubstanceUse #OpioidAgonistTreatment #BCCoronersService #BCtoxicdrugcrisis #BCtoxicdrugsupply #buprenorphine #HannahDempsey #GuyFelicella #JessLamb
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The Tyee: Tragedy, and a Search for Answers on Sai'kuz First Nation https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/08/Tragedy-Search-Questions-Missing-Saikuz-First-Nation/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #NationalInquiryintoMissingandMurderedIndigenousWomenandGirls #Saik'uzFirstNationChiefPriscillaMueller #Skeena-BulkleyValleyMPTaylorBachrach #NechakoValleySearchandRescue #HighwayofTearsSymposium #MinistryofPublicSafety #BCSolicitorGeneral #Saik'uzFirstNation #BCCoronersService #ChelseyHeronQuaw #RCMP
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The Tyee: Changing ‘Welfare Wednesday’ Could Save Lives. Why Haven’t We Done It? https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/16/Changing-Welfare-Wednesday-Could-Save-Lives/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #BCMinistryofSocialDevelopmentandPovertyReduction #LindseyRichardson,UBCprof #incomeassistancepayments #BCCentreonSubstanceUse #disabilitybenefits #BCCoronersService #BCtoxicdrugdeaths #PigeonParkSavings #DowntownEastside #WelfareWednesday #benzodiazepines #chequedaystudy #overdosecrisis #KarenWard
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The Tyee: A Catastrophe with ‘No Sense of Crisis’ https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/06/Catastrophe-No-Sense-Crisis/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #CanadianCentreonSubstanceAbuse #MentalHealthCommissionofCanada #UniversityofBritishColumbia #COVID-19governmentresponse #CrosstownClinicVancouver #substanceusedisorders #opioidagonisttherapy #addictionpsychiatry #drugtoxicitycrisis #BCCoronersService #BCtoxicdrugcrisis #BCtoxicdrugdeaths #traumaanddruguse #benzodiazepines #MichaelKrausz
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The Tyee: How Ramping Up Drug Testing Could Save Lives https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/05/Ramping-Drug-Testing-Could-Save-Lives/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #Fouriertransforminfraredspectrometer #VancouverIslandDrugCheckingProject #massspectrometerdrugtesting #VancouverDispensarySociety #BCCentreonSubstanceUse #drugtestinginVancouver #VancouverCoastalHealth #GetYourDrugsTested #BCCoronersService #BCtoxicdrugdeaths #Ramanspectrometer #benzodiazepines #880EHastings #carfentanil #fentanyl
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Global News BC: Woman fatally hit by pickup truck in Kelowna intersection, coroner investigating https://globalnews.ca/news/10002460/woman-fatally-hit-pickup-truck-kelowna/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCCoronersService #KelownaMounties #redDodgetruck #CapriStreet #GORDONDRIVE #KelownaRCMP #Traffic #Kelowna #RCMP
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The Tyee: Study Shows Selling Tested Drugs Saves Lives https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/29/Selling-Tested-Drugs-Saves-Lives/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #VancouverPoliceDepartment #CrosstownClinicVancouver #DrugUserLiberationFront #BCCentreonSubstanceUse #harmreductionVancouver #hydromorphonediversion #BCCoronersService #BCtoxicdrugdeaths #JeremyKalicumDULF #DowntownEastside #Sgt.SteveAddison #benzodiazepines #compassionclub #BCSafeSupply #Naloxonekits #carfentanil #ErisNyxDULF
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Global News BC: B.C. lost 174 people to toxic drugs in August, 2023 death toll tops 1,600 https://globalnews.ca/news/9984055/august-deaths-toxic-drug-crisis-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #liveslostBCtoxicdrugcrisis #BCCoronersService #decriminalization #JenniferWhiteside #BCoverdosecrisis #toxicdrugcrisis #toxicdrugsupply #BCOpioidCrisis #toxicdrugs #BCdruguse #Health
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Global News BC: It’s been more than 6 months of drug decriminalization in B.C. What’s changed? https://globalnews.ca/news/9924506/drug-decriminalization-six-months-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #mentalhealthandaddiction #PoisonedDrugSupply #BCCoronersService #decriminalization #illicitdrugsupply #BCoverdosecrisis #BCOpioidCrisis #OpioidCrisis #Politics #Fentanyl #Health #VANDU
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Global News BC: Another inquest jury recommends police body cameras after B.C. man fatally shot https://globalnews.ca/news/9938036/waylon-edey-castlegar-coroners-inquest-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCCoronersService #Coroner'sInquest #Policebrutality #PoliceShooting #PoliceViolence #CastlegarNews #WaylonEdey #Castlegar #MylesGray #Crime #News
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Global News BC: ‘People should be valued’: B.C. on pace for deadliest year in drug crisis https://globalnews.ca/news/9926906/july-2023-toxic-drug-deaths-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Julyoverdosenumbers #BCCoronersService #bctoxicdrugcrisis #BCoverdosecrisis #toxicdrugcrisis #OverdoseCrisis #OpioidCrisis #fentaly #Health #VANDU
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Global News BC: Another human foot found in shoe on B.C. beach https://globalnews.ca/news/9915146/human-foot-found-victoria-gonzales-beach/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #humanfootfoundGonzalesbeach #humanfootfoundVictoriabeach #bodypartfoundVictoriabeach #humanfootinvestigation #BCCoronersService #humanfootVictoria #GonzalesBeach #footfound #Crime
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Global News BC: Body discovered in remnants of Vernon-area brush fire https://globalnews.ca/news/9912035/body-discovered-vernon-brush-fire/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCCoronersService #NorthOkanaganRCMP #centralokanagan #498thAvenue #48thAvenue #vernonrcmp #Highway97 #Okanagan #Fire