BC’s Overdose Overview: December 6 – 12, 2020

The BCCDC Overdose Dashboard provides updates on:

  • Illegal drug overdoses attended by paramedics (BCEHS)
  • Illicit drug toxicity deaths (BCCS defined)
  • Mortality rate maps by Health Services Delivery Area (HSDA)
  • Severity of ingestion poisoning calls coded in most severe category at time of ambulance dispatch (provincial view)
  • Severity of overdose patient presentation assessed by paramedics using the Glasgow Coma Scale (health authority pages)
  • Proportion of overdose patients transported to hospital

 

Weekly Overdose dashboard placemat December 6 – 12, 2020.

For current drug alerts in BC, visit Toward the Heart

 

Learn more

See the Overdose Response Indicators recorded by the BC Centre for Disease Control

Read the November edition of Substance Use News from PAN

See our Drug Use and Overdose response resources

Use the Human Rights Education Toolkit for community advocacy