B.C. residents can now provide input on how to tackle toxic drug crisis

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B.C. residents can now provide input on how to tackle toxic drug crisis

British Columbians are being urged to contribute to a government consultation on the toxic drug emergency, which continues to see an average of more than six residents die of an overdose every day.

The public consultation is part of the provincial standing committee on health, which was formed earlier this year and involves MLAs from all three provincial parties.

It aims to provide recommendations to the government on how to stop an increasing number of people dying from a poisoned illicit-drug supply in the province.

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The public consultation is now open on the legislature's website, accessible through this link.

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The government says the public can provide up to four recommendations to tackle the crisis, including actions to take, how existing services can be improved, and how to "address the harm done by the increasingly toxic and unpredictable illicit supply".

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The public consultation page is open until Aug. 5. The standing committee is set to provide recommendations to the government in November.

Before anyone posts about forced detox, etc there's this quote: "Imagine if people were dying of a poisoned alcohol supply, and then everybody who wanted to drink was just put into treatment."