B.C. woman shares frustration with 'normalized' deaths to toxic drugs following loss of father

In April, after five months of grief and speculation, Aizha Osborne uncovered the cause of her father’s death.

Although she had been told by her great-aunt that her father, Phil Osborne, died in November 2022 as the result of a heart attack, Osborne suspected it might have been a result of his decades-long struggle with addiction. 

She contacted the B.C. Coroners’ Service to see the report on his death for herself — and discovered her father had, indeed, died due to an overdose.

“While I wasn’t surprised, I was just very, very saddened,” Osborne, age 51, told CBC News’ Rohit Joseph.

“My father was such a wonderful person in so many ways. He was only 69

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