Lindsey Richardson: Can staggering income-assistance cheques reduce overdose risk?

Earlier this month the B.C. Coroners Service released its latest report on overdose deaths in the province. Once again, the number of people who died as a result of an overdose is staggering — 124 in April, a figure that has tragically become the norm in the two years since the provincial public-health emergency was declared.
Also contained in the coroners’ report was this: over the past year an average of 5.6 fatal overdoses occurred over the five