In 2018 there were 23 fatal overdoses in B.C. public bathrooms, a freedom-of-information request reveals—deaths health authorities maintain were entirely preventable.
"The proper public response would have been a genuine apology," Kennedy Deese wrote on the same weekend that Alan Schmegelsky appeared in a 60 Minutes Australia broadcast.
Ending the war on drugs will reduce stigma and help address overdose deaths, reads a declaration issued by the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of B.C. and the Harm Reduction Nurses Association.
