One person has died in northwest B.C. this month from a drug overdose according to new data from the B.C. Coroners Service.
Since the start of this year, that number is 27 which is down compared to last year’s 51.
Across Northern Health, 12 illicit drug deaths occurred in September with 106 now recorded for 2025.
The health authority has the highest rate of overdose deaths provincially at 47 out of 100,000 people, nine points higher than Interior Health.
Provincially, 158 people died due to a drug overdose in September, or about five deaths per day.
The highest number of drug deaths through this year were in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities at 406 and 366 respectively.
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