New law aims to reduce drug deaths by encouraging people to report overdoses

Friday, May 5, 2017 - 08:42 in Health & Medicine

The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act was introduced as a private member's bill last year by the Liberal MP for Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, Ron McKinnon. On Thursday, It received royal assent.

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