BC’s Overdose Overview March 28 – April 3, 2021

BC’s weekly overdose dashboard of provincial and regional overdose activity 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 March 28 – April 3, 2021

BC Coroners Service Overdose update for February 2021

Drug Alerts for People who Use Substances

 

Learn more

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

See the March edition of Substance Use News

See our Drug Use and Overdose response resources

Use the Human Rights Education Toolkit for community advocacy