Locals agree the re were already too many people dying on the streets of Campbell River, B.C., before 13 people recently overdosed in the space of six and a half weeks.
The number is staggering for the small Vancouver Island c ity, where about 35,000 people live about 220 kilometres northwest of Victoria. It pushed the local RCMP detachment to issue a rare warning this month about what they suspect to be a batch of particularly toxic drugs in the community.
For users, their family, friends and public health workers, the fatalities are felt deeply in the little networks people maintain there to look out for each other.
"I knew all of them, we knew them all, they’re our friends," said Anne–Marie Levac, a Campbell River resident
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