Cent Increase: Drug Production

cent increase: Clark also called on the federal government to ask the Canada Border Services Agency to search small packages, including envelopes, for fentanyl in order to stop the drug from entering the country, according to Hamilton Spectator. Recent statistics from the coroners' service in B.C. show there were 371 deaths in the first six months of this year, about a 74 per cent increase compared with the same period last year. Clark told a news conference Thursday she wants Ottawa to restrict access to devices involved with drug production, such as pill presses and tableting machines, and to pursue stronger penalties against people who import and traffic fentanyl. The service said the proportion of deaths where toxicology tests detected fentanyl jumped to about 60 per cent, and that the drug was either used alone or in combination with other drugs. "That scope is alarming. Paul Hospital in Vancouver, where she was flanked by police, ambulance and firefighting officials, as well as addiction experts. It frightening and it something that all of us should be concerned about," Clark said at St. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.