“You can’t break down over everyone who dies because there’s a guy going down like every week,” says Drake Smith

VICTORIA — Drake Smith knew he was going to overdose. He was in a bathroom downtown. His friends had told him to only do half a hit, but if you only do half, he said, you can’t get the same rush. So he did the whole thing. The heroin was laced with fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times stronger than heroin.  Read the rest of this article at Times Colonist…