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An informed reader has revealed that four of five fentanyl deaths in B.C. have been males, mostly young.

What are we to make of this deadly gender disparity?

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Researcher Kerry McCowan obtained the female-male breakdown for the past five years from the B.C. Coroner’s office. He put together the graphic above to illustrate this unknown aspect of the fentanyl crisis, which has killed 374 British Columbians in the first 10 months of this year alone.

I have not read or viewed every one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of news stories written and broadcast about the fentanyl epidemic in B.C. I have, however, seen scores of them.

And although I might have missed something, not one story I have seen has mentioned the gender imbalance. (Readers are encouraged to correct me if I’m wrong.)

I’m curious about this lack of interest in gender..

At first I thought the information on gender breakdown on fentanyl deaths was just hard to obtain from the B.C. government.