British Columbia's premier says the ongoing toxic drug crisis in the province has led to a cohort of people with serious brain injuries who are too deep in their addiction and mental-health crisis to ask for help.

"And so, what happens is they continually cycle in and out of prisons, involvement in crime, and then back into prison and they don't get better. They just continually struggle and often then ultimately die," David Eby said Thursday as he announced the opening of a 10-unit facility in …