The illicit drug crisis in British Columbia continues to take more lives as recent data shows more than 100 people died during the month of May.
Before November 2016, the province had never seen as many as 100 deaths in a single month. Now, and in every month since, numbers routinely exceed 110.
This jump in drug-related deaths culminated in December when numbers reached an all-time high of 159 deaths in that month alone.
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