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 April 25- May 1, 2021
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Learn more
See the Overdose Response Indicators recorded by the BC Centre for Disease Control
See the April edition of Substance Use News
See our Drug Use and Overdose response resources