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Parents say involuntary care expansion came too late for daughter

Mom says Brianna MacDonald, 13, who died of a suspected overdose in Abbotsford, couldn't get help she needed

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The province's plans to expand involuntary care to include severe addiction has come too late for a 13-year-old girl who died of suspected overdose last month, her parents say.

Before Brianna MacDonald died in Abbotsford, B.C., her parents tried to get her treatment — but couldn't, they said. 

"We brought her to many doctors and psychiatrists throughout the years and tried to get her help," Sarah MacDonald, Brianna's mother, said. "But it just didn't seem to help."

On Sunday, Premier David Eby ann…

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