opioid crisis

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

The federal health minister is forming a national task force to provide input on how to better prevent, treat and manage chronic pain, which affects one in five Canadians and is often addressed with opioids.

Jordan McBain Miller was just 25 when he died in 2014. The young man from Pender Island, B.C. had recently started his own business installing wood stoves. He injured his back while working and was prescribed oxycodone for the pain.

According to the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, inequality in B.C. is the highest in Canada and growing at a fast rate. We can do better, writes columnist Tracy Sherlock.

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.

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.

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says Canada's doctors have a major role to play in improving the health of the country's most vulnerable populations.

Not a peep about Trans Mountain during meeting between between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.

John Horgan has been B.C.'s premier for less than a day and already the requests are flooding in, as various groups compete to get their respective wish lists into the new government.

Free naloxone kits will be available at over 300 community pharmacies beginning Sept. 1, provincial Health Minister Randy Delorey said Wednesday.

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

British Columbia's newly ramped-up program, known as Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST), provides access to two synthetic opioid substitution drugs known as Suboxone and methadone.

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

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says legalized pot will keep youth safe and take money from gangs, but the government is drawing the line when it comes to legalizing illicit drugs.