Over the last five years, the Health Canada Drug Analysis Service Laboratory has seen significant changes in the overall number of drug submissions sent to its facility in Burnaby, British Columbia by law enforcement agencies in British Columbia. In effect, the Health Canada Drug Analysis Service Laboratory saw a decline in the number of submissions from 2004 to 2005, a rise back to 2004 levels in 2006, a further rise in 2007, and then a very substantial drop to below 2004 levels in 2008. The change overall for the five-year 2004 to 2008 period was an 11.9% decrease in the number of submissions in 2008 compared to the number of submissions in 2004.
