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A mother whose son died of a fentanyl overdose wants the Regina Police Service to equip all front-line officers with the life-saving antidote naloxone.

The ranking U.S. diplomat on drug enforcement policy is to visit Ottawa in July to kick-start a fresh round of co-operation between the two countries on tackling the opioid crisis.

A British Columbia coroner's inquest jury recommends improvements in provincial substance abuse treatment, detection and prevention services for young people following an inquest into the overdose of a Victoria-area teen.

Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest on Thursday, June 20, 2019, about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was abusing drugs but showed signs of a growing opioid addiction.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government needs to "hold China accountable" for the illicit fentanyl that has fuelled Canada's opioid crisis.

These days, we as a society are talking and writing a lot about deaths related to addiction, and the drugs that fuel them. But we've been glacially slow to deal with this human tragedy because of deep-seated, long-standing and widespread prejudice against addicts.

Denise Lane searches her mind for fond memories of her son, but she has trouble retrieving them. No Christmases, no birthdays. It's hard to remember the good times.

The RCMP has launched at least 20 investigations involving dozens of vendors shipping fentanyl from China as Canada grapples with a record number of illicit opioid deaths.

Two women's brush with death demonstrates the challenges cities face in dealing with the fentanyl crisis.

Trudeau said decriminalization is not the approach Canada will take to deal with deadly overdoses often involving the opioid fentanyl.

The number of cannabis-related offences reported to police declined for the fifth straight year, Statistics Canada said as it released its annual report on police-reported crime.

An addictions doctor in Saskatchewan says physicians need more help to treat people with chronic pain without prescribing them opioids.

"Dread welled up as I fumbled for my phone to call 911."

There have been no deaths this year at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites, the latest report from the coroner said.

"I feel it’s something we need to be doing something about faster than we are doing it," Hedy Fry, the longtime Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, said in an interview.