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‘Disturbing’ scenes, record overdoses, as powerful sedative hits B.C. drug supply
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Share this story:VANCOUVER — Last weekend, frontline health workers in Trail, B.C., reported “disturbing” scenes to Dr. Karin Goodison, medical health officer with Interior Health.
Centre for Disease Control says is a new substance in the unregulated drug supply, prompting it to send out a rare provincewide drug alert on Monday.
BC Emergency Health Services said paramedics responded to a record 256 overdoses in B.C.
They’ve also noticed metatodomine becoming more prevalent in samples of B.C.’s drug supply.
Crabtree said that regardless of the reason, people who use substances are exposed to an “increasingly complex drug supply.” Drug deaths have been falling steadily in B.C.