Thu Jun 22, 2023 – 2:05 pm EDTThu Jun 22, 2023 – 2:08 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– After federal policy was implemented allowing legal illicit drug possession in the Canadian province of British Columbia, recent statistics show that more people aged 10 to 59 have died from overdoses than from disease, murder, suicide, and natural disaster combined.
Recently released statistics show that from January to May of 2023, there have been over 1,000 drug-related deaths in the province. This is despite federal and provincial policies enacted called “harm reduction,” which have decriminalized the possession of hard drugs.
According to information from the B.C. Coroners Service, 1,018 people have died from drugs in 2023 thus far, with an average of about 200 dying each month.
The province is on track to see more people die from drugs this year than last year’s record-setting 2,359 deaths.
An astonishing 85 percent of the deaths were linked to the dangerous opioid fentanyl, a depressant factors of times more powerful than heroin. Methamphetamine and cocaine were also responsible for some of the deaths.
A federal policy put in place by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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