More than four people a day on average die in B.C. from illicit drugs: coroner
VANCOUVER — More than four people a day on average died in British Columbia in May from illicit drugs, a death toll the coroner’s service says should serve as a warning to people who are not drug-dependent to avoid experimentation.
The service says provisional data show 129 persons died in May, down slightly from 136 who died in April.
It says until November 2016, there had never been as many as 100 drug deaths in the province for a single month, but in every month since then the number of deaths has exceeded 110.
The highest number of deaths came in December, when 159 died.