The Coroners Service says it recorded 181 suspected drug poisoning deaths in May and 185 in June, bringing the total number of fatalities in the first half of this year to 1,158.
British Columbia's Coroners Service says the number of people who have died this year from toxic drug poisoning is down from 2023, but an average of six people are still dying every day from using illicit drugs.
In a statement responding to the latest death toll, B.C.'s minister of mental health and addictions says "the rate of death is at its lowest point in four years." The coroners' service says fentanyl continues to drive deaths from illicit drugs, with the potent opioid detected in 82 per cent of toxicological tests conducted this year.Nearly half of those who died in May and June were people between the ages of 30 and 49. While men account for 72 per cent of deaths so far this year, the coroners' service says the rate of death among women continues to rise.
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