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Paramedics were kept incredibly busy on Friday (July 27) with a seemingly endless number of overdose calls.

According to B.C. Emergency Health Services, the 130 suspected incidents involving drugs tied the record for a single day.

Amazingly, every life was saved.

"Tell your families, tell your friends: Don't Use Alone, and Call 911 if you suspect an OD," the healthy agency tweeted.

The executive vice president of B.C. Emergency Health Services, Linda Lupini, has tweeted that there's a "very toxic supply" of illicit drugs being sold now.

In May 2018, there were 109 suspected drug overdose deaths in B.C., which was a 23 percent fall from the same month of 2017.

There were 124 suspected drug overdoses across the province in April.

"In 2018, 71% of those dying were aged 30 to 59; individuals aged 19-59 have accounted for 92% of illicit drug overdose deaths," the B.C. Coroners Service reported in its statistics for the first five months of the year.

Four in five overdose deaths involved males and the highest numbers were in Vancouver, Surrey, and Victoria.

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority's 37 illicit-drug-overdose deaths per 100,000 was the highest rate in the province in the first five months of 2018. That was followed by the Interior Health Authority at 32 deaths per 100,000.

In the first five months of the year, there were no deaths at B.C. supervised consumption sites or B.C. drug-overdose prevention sites, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.