The article I am summarizing is “Most fatal overdose victims did not have recent police contact: Stats Canada” from the Cowichan Valley Citizen news website. Figures from Statistic Canada showed that two-thirds of people who died in B.C.’s overdoes crisis did not have contact with Police over the past two years. Statistics Canada analysed deaths between 2011 and 2016 and discovered drug overdose figures rose sharply in the latter two years. Since 2016, 8,000 people have died from overdosing illicit drugs across the country. Furthermore, B.C. has the highest number of people dying of illicit…