Coroner calls for clean heroin supply to addicts

The number of illicit overdose deaths was down in January in British Columbia, but the toll of 116 people is still the third-highest on record behind only the previous two months. The BC Coroners Service says most of those deaths involved people between the ages of 30 and 49 years old, and four out of five of them were male. Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says many of those who have died are drug-dependent and didn’t succeed in getting off drugs through a variety of treatment programs.