Comment: I'll take this opportunity to comment on a similar "comments closed" story from a few days ago.

"Study finds ‘appalling’ death rate among young Indigenous drug users in B.C."  G&M Nov 6
Whose study? "Cedar Project Partnership of First Nations groups and researchers." 

Findings: 
In B.C. "Indigenous drug users ... are 13 times more likely to die compared with other Canadians of the same age..." "Other Canadians?" Silly comparison. Of course they are! most "other Canadians" don't abuse drugs. Try "compare deaths of "other drug users."

"It is possible that some of the overdoses observed were in fact suicides..."  If it is "possible" it is NOT a fact. Fact is, we'll likely never know. 

Conclusion: "The death rates among young Indigenous people who use drugs ... are appalling and must be viewed as a public health and human rights issue,"Human rights?  Why? If it is, the death rate for caucasians who OD might be seen as a human rights issue, too.

ANY death from O.D. is appalling.