{"id":86024,"date":"2017-01-20T00:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86024"},"modified":"2017-01-20T00:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:44:34","slug":"br-overdose-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/20\/br-overdose-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"BR Overdose Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86025\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/drug-overdose.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/drug-overdose.png\" alt=\"BR Overdose Crisis (Photo: Imagens Evang\u00e9licas\/Flickr)\" width=\"465\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/drug-overdose.png 465w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/drug-overdose-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BR Overdose Crisis<br \/>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/imagensevangelicas\/13957578482\/\">Imagens Evang\u00e9licas\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">New numbers show last month was British Columbia&#8217;s worst ever when it comes to illicit drug overdose deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">December saw 142 fatalities, topping the record of 128 set the previous month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The latest statistics put the overall number of deaths in the province last year to 914 &#8212; or about five dying people every two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">B-C Health Minister Terry Lake says last year&#8217;s toll could have been far higher and is warning the federal government that the epidemic is spreading across Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Lake notes there were no overdose deaths at Insite, the safe-injection site in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">People aged 30 to 49 made up the biggest portion of overdose deaths in 2016, with males accounting for four fifths of the overall toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New numbers show last month was British Columbia&#8217;s worst ever when it comes to illicit drug overdose deaths. December saw &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,37,16],"tags":[393,13995],"class_list":["post-86024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-health","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-drug-overdose","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}