VANCOUVER - Brock Eurchuk said he felt "completely cut adrift" by British Columbia's health care system when trying to deal with health troubles of their 16-year-old son, Elliot.

The teenager died from an overdose in 2018.

"Elliot was in care in a hospital for over a month, and the caregivers were completely detached from Elliot — and Rachel and I — in terms of giving us advice and helping us," Eurchuk said Friday accompanied by the teen's mother, Dr. Rachel Staples.

"And I think it was out of fear that they were in a legal environment that they could be in trouble for sharing with Rachel and I medical information about Elliot — that Elliot, at 15 and 16, said, 'I don't want my parents to have any of this information.'"

The B.C. government said cases such as Eurchuk's are at the centre

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