One person died due to unregulated drugs across northwest B.C. in February.
According to the B.C. Coroners Service, the region had the lowest death rate per 100,000 people in Northern Health at 32.1.
The health authority recorded the lowest number of deaths provincially that month at 11, and has the highest death rate per 100,000 this year at 51.
Provincially, 115 unregulated drug deaths were recorded through February, equating to about 4.1 deaths per day.
Of those, 69 per cent were age 30 to 59 with 79 per cent being male.
Smoking was the most common method of consumption with 71 per cent, followed by nasal insufflation (9 per cent), injection (9 per cent), and oral (2 per cent).
A full summary can be found here.
Files by Logan Flint, Vista Radio Staff
