Browsing: Opioid Crisis

Descrease article font size Increase article font size B.C.’s attorney general says the B.C. Supreme Court has certified the province’s…

Last September, as Oregon faced an ever-increasing rate of fatal drug overdoses, a new study concluded the state’s first-in-the-U.S. decriminalization…

More than one in four deaths among young Canadians between 2019 and 2021 were opioid-related, with the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Eight years to the day after British Columbia declared a public health emergency, Premier David Eby said the toxic drug…

Peer-reviewed research is emerging about the possible impact of British Columbia’s safer supply program, which provides prescription alternatives to toxic…

The federal Liberal government is rejecting a proposal from the Alberta government to consider adding a “unique chemical identifier” to…

Fatal drug overdoses from smoking substances, rather than injection, has increased dramatically in the United States, a new report from the…

An Ontario mayor declared a state of emergency after nearly 20 people overdosed in 24 hours. And Quebec City health…

On a cool Thursday afternoon in Ottawa, veteran police officer Sgt. Avery Flanagan approaches a man hunched over in a…

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday struggled over whether to approve OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement, voicing concern the…