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(CP) Drug death toll reaches new peak in British Columbia with 555 fatalities in nine months
The number of illicit drug deaths in British Columbia surpassed last year’s death toll after just nine months.
The Ministry of Public Safety says in the first nine months of this year there were 555 deaths because of illicit drug overdoses, compared with 508 for all of 2015.
The ministry says fentanyl remains the major contributor to the high number of deaths and in more than 60 per cent of them, the drug was detected.
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