Police report five fatal overdoses in one day in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The overdose deaths of five people ages 40 to 67 in Abbotsford, B.C., over the course of nine hours Friday is a reminder that the opioid crisis does not only apply to the stereotype of young people in back alleys, police say.
Cst. Ian MacDonald said the five deaths happened separately over the course of just nine hours and four of the people were in their own residences or indoors.
The three men and two women all died alone.
MacDonald said it’s time for the public to change their mindset about who drug users are because it is “an across-the-board problem.”