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First Nations ‘particularly and disproportionately’ overrepresented among B.C. toxic drug deaths

He didn’t answer it, but then his cellphone rang.

“I had to make a decision for my family to remove oxygen from my daughter, who died shortly thereafter.” Indigenous people made up 16.4 per cent of the 2,314 toxic drug deaths in B.C. last year, despite only representing 3.3 per cent of the province’s total population. Kelly spoke during the First Nations Health Authority’s data release for toxic drug deaths on Indigenous people in B.C.

 

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