By Samuel Tobias, PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
On the same day that British Columbia began a new era in drug policy with the decriminalization of simple possession of some drugs, the province’s chief coroner provided a devastating update about the number of lives lost to illicit drugs during the previous year.
On Jan. 31, B.C.
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