British Columbia’s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says she’s a hopeful person, but she is leaving her office frustrated and disappointed.
Angry, even, with drug overdose deaths expected to hit record levels this year.
The B.C. Coroners Service issued a public safety warning Wednesday, citing increases in overdose deaths “above earlier indications,” when 189 deaths were reported in October.
Lapointe has been at the forefront of the province’s battle against toxic drug overdoses for years, but she said the public health emergency that was declared in April 2016 never received a “a co-ordinated response commensurate with the size of this crisis.”
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