Illicit-drug fatalities on the decline in B.C., but overdoses in general are not GlobeBC
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.British Columbia’s annual death toll from overdoses is poised to decline for the first time since the province’s public-health emergency began – but non-fatal overdoses show no signs of abating and health officials say the crisis is far from over.
“Fewer people are dying, which is a good thing, but there is a big risk that people will start thinking, okay, we’re getting ahead of this, we’ll take our attention away from it,” said Perry Kendall, interim acting executive co-director of the BC Centre on Substance Use and former provincial health officer. “In fact, there are still a number of things to be really concerned about.”
Countless overdoses have also been reversed within the community by peers, rather than first responders, and may not be accounted for. Since its launch in 2012, a provincewide take-home naloxone program has distributed more than 172,000 of the kits that reverse opioid overdoses, and at least 50,000 of them have been reported used, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control.
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