British Columbia, which recently decriminalized the possession of small amounts of hard drugs, set a record in March for the most overdose calls in one day.
The province also recorded the highest 30-day average of overdose calls and the most consecutive days where paramedics responded to 100 or more poisoning calls each day in March.
On March 22, paramedics responded to 205 poisoning calls in the province. Also in March, B.C. recorded an average of 119.9 daily overdoses in March, beating a previous 30-day high of 116.2 from July to August 2021.
Between March 15 and April 2, there were at least 100 notifications of poisonings on each of those 19 days, beating a previous record for consecutive days, of 15 poisonings, set in August 2021….