Safe consumption site opens in Victoria to help combat growing overdose crisis
11 January 2017
By Kylie Stanton
A safe consumption site has opened in Victoria, one day after B.C.’s chief coroner confirmed the number of fatal overdoses has risen sharply.
“We were able to move really quickly and get this set up in a matter of days,” Our Place Society director of communications Grant McKenzie said.
On Vancouver Island, there was a 153 per cent increase in the rate of illicit drug overdose deaths between January and November of this year, the highest of all health authorities in the province. That’s a rate of nearly 20 deaths per 100,000 people.
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