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Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the death toll. All it takes is access to naloxone, a life-saving medication that temporarily reverses an opioid overdose.

A national substance use research organization is warning about a new type of opioid that is increasingly being found in Canada's unregulated drug supply.

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

Federal immigration officials are deporting a California prostitute to Canada after she completed a jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter for giving a fatal heroin shot to a Google executive.

The drug-trafficking trial for a Nova Scotia doctor accused of prescribing 50,000 pills to a hospital patient started Monday with the defence attempting to have several pieces of evidence thrown out.