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  1. 9 Out of 10 Americans Died Last Year From Drugs

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  2. B.C. Coroners Service reports ’significant decline’ in #drugdeaths | Vancouver Sun vancouversun.com/news/bc-drug- “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”

  3. From 2019 to 2021, premature deaths due to opioid overdoses doubled across Canada and accounted for one in four deaths among people aged 20 to 39

    “That, to me, is staggering. Think about the degree to which these accidental deaths, these preventable deaths, are shortening people’s lives,” said Tara Gomes, a scientist at Unity Health Toronto and senior author of the study

    #paywall

    thestar.com/news/canada/opioid

    #drugs #DrugDeaths #opioid #overdose #prevention #health #cdnpoli #bcpoli

  4. British Columbia Moves Ahead with a National Opioid Damages Lawsuit

    Purdue Pharma has settled for $150 million. The province’s attorney general says ‘dozens’ more companies are named in the class action

    thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/28/BC-

    #opioid #DrugDeaths #PoisonedDrugs #lawsuit #settlement