‘The perfect storm’: more poisoning calls than ever as overdose crisis turns 7
British Columbia Emergency Health Services has released grim statistics on the toxic drug crisis ahead of the seventh anniversary of the province declaring a public health emergency.
The drug supply has been getting more toxic and there’s not enough testing available for people who use drugs to know what they are consuming, she said. On March 22, 2023, paramedics responded to a total of 205 poisoning calls in B.C., a new provincial daily record exceeding the previous mark of 203 on Jan. 19, 2022.
Kendall said declaring an emergency was meant to increase public awareness and require data around overdoses and deaths to be released more quickly.“We introduced overdose prevention sites, the minister ordered the regional health authorities to open up overdose prevention sites where the need was, the coroner was able to give us information on a rapid basis … we got a significant budget to add to the response,” he said.
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