Toxic drug deaths response, care now top priority for First Nations Health Authority
With B.C.’s public health emergency around toxic drug deaths hitting First Nations harder than the rest of the population, the health authority is moving to a healing- and wellness-centred approach to treatment and care.
Of those, 36.5 per cent identified as women – a stark contrast to the 18 per cent of all women in B.C. when including non-Indigenous deaths. On April 14, 2022, the province commemorated the seventh anniversary of the toxic drug crisis. At least 11,807 deaths have been caused by unregulated drugs since the public-health emergency was first declared in April 2016.‘Without a regulated supply, everyone just dies’: Parade marks 7th year of toxic drug crisis
Hughes explained the FNHA is moving to a healing- and wellness-centred approach to treatment and care that builds on First Nations peoples’ strengths and resilience. It also includes land-based healing initiatives and expanding healing pathways to those that have lost loved ones to the toxic drug crisis.
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