1,826 people died from toxic drugs in B.C. in 2025, a 21% decrease from 2024

Preliminary data from the B.C. Coroners Service shows more than 1,800 people died from toxic drugs in 2025, a 21 per cent decrease from the previous year.
The latest data, released Thursday (Feb. 20), says 1,826 people fatally overdosed in 2025 from unregulated drugs in the province. It’s the first time since 2020 that deaths due to fatal overdoses totalled fewer than 2,000 people within a year.
The B.C. Coroners Service also released the overdose numbers for the final months of 2025: Nove