B.C. getting $71 million to increase access to treatment for substance abuse

The province hardest hit by what health officials consider a national opioid crisis is receiving tens of millions of dollars to increase access to treatment for substance abuse.
The federal government says it is giving British Columbia $71.7 million as part of a bilateral agreement signed today.
A man walks past a mural about the fentanyl and opioid overdose crisis in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in December.
The federal health minister, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, said the money was part of