Most deaths indoorsThe coroner's service says, in 2017, 89.5 per cent of illicit drug overdose deaths occurred indoors, with more than half inside a person's private residence. There has never been a death at a supervised consumption site, and health officials are urging drug users to use those facilities. The stats also show that, so far in 2017, 35 per cent of all overdose deaths happened in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. Nearly two-thirds of overdose deaths from January to February of 2017 involved fentanyl, but fentanyl-related data is not available for March and April. Sarah Blyth, with Vancouver's Overdose Prevention Society, said she welcomes the move but called it a bandaid solution.

Source: CBC News May 31, 2017 20:16 UTC