British ColumbiaThe numbers are up slightly from the previous two months when the service reported 145 people died in May and 147 people died in June.Deaths up slightly compared to May and JuneThe Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 10, 2025 1:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours agoThousands of people have died since the province declared a public health emergency in the wake of increasing toxic drug deaths in 2016. (Ben Nelms/CBC)B.C.’s coroners service say 153 people died in July another 149 people died in August from unregulated toxic drugs.Those numbers are up slightly from the previous two months when the service reported that 145 people died in May and 147 people died in JuneA government statement says the number of unregulated drug deaths in July and August amounted to almost five people a day. The B.C. Coroners Service says the highest number of deaths so far this year were in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities, making up more than half of the province’s total.More than two thirds of this year’s deaths have been among people between the ages of 30 and 59, and 78 per cent of the deaths were men.The service says fentanyl and its analogues remain the most common substance found in testing, being detected in 70 per cent of those who died during the period.
153 people died in July, 149 in August from unregulated drugs in B.C.: coroner
