Kamloops 10

Kelowna 6

Vernon 5

Penticton 3

Olalla 2

Cawston 1

Oliver 1

Osoyoos 0

Kootenays 0

Source: IHA – deaths listed above since 2012

This year in B.C. there were 76 drug-related deaths in January alone, the largest number of deaths in a single month since at least 2007.

If that pattern continues this year, it could mean as many as 600 to 800 fatal overdoses in 2016.

As the rate of overdoses has grown, so has the proportion of illicit drug-related deaths due in part — or entirely — to fentanyl, which was involved in five per cent of deaths in 2012 and approximately 31 per cent in 2015.