Paramedics responded to a record number of overdose calls on Friday, B.C. Emergency Health Services says.
There were 131 calls reporting suspected overdoses that day – "the most recorded in a single day," BCEHS wrote on Twitter Monday.Those calls were made in an area spanning Chilliwack, in B.C.'s Lower Mainland, to the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island.
The striking statistic follows another sombre milestone met in the province: more people died of illicit drug overdoses in May than in any other month in B.C.'s history.Among the factors expected to be behind the increase in ODs is the influx of novel coronavirus.
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