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Table, Drug-Induced Deaths by Cause

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Table, Drug-Induced Deaths by Cause

HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 44/FIGURE 26
  • There were 385 deaths in the province from drug-induced causes in 1999 and 2,502 drug-induced deaths in 1994-1998.

  • Almost three quarters of drug-induced deaths in 1999 and 1994-1998 (70.6% and 72.1% respectively) were the result of accidental poisonings by drugs, medicaments and biologicals (272 deaths in 1999 and 1,805 deaths in 1994-1998).

  • Approximately one fifth of the drug-induced deaths (19.1%) were the result of suicide by drugs, medicaments and biologicals in 1994-1998 (479 deaths). The proportion of suicides among drug-induced deaths (16.9%) was slightly lower in 1999 (65 deaths).

  • Of all the 421 suicide deaths in B.C. in 1999 (presented in Table 30), 65 suicides, or approximately one in six suicide deaths (15.4%), were drug-induced.