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BC’s Toxic Drug Crisis Hits a Grim 10-Year Anniversary

By Michelle Gamage, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

It’s been four and a half years since Jane McCormick’s son, Jeff, was killed by unregulated drugs. Were he alive, he would have just celebrated his 40th birthday with his two kids.

McCormick said that for the first three years she was filled with sadness. And then she started to get mad.

She’s mad because Jeff’s death, just like the more than 18,179 British Columbians killed by unregulated drugs since April 14, 2016, was preventable.

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