A decade after Insite, drug policy landscape is still being shaped in B.C.
In 2021, the Vancouver-based Drug User Liberation Front approached Health Canada with a proposal.
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Conservative motion against safe supply of drugs fails in vote
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has failed to persuade the House of Commons to condemn the Liberal government's approach to fighting drug addiction.
Not everyone believes B.C.'s decriminalization plan will reduce OD deaths
Decriminalization of people with small amounts of illegal drugs for their own use has become a reality in British Columbia, but substance users and researchers say the change is expected to make little immediate difference because of a toxic drug supply.
More comprehensive services required to curb B.C. drug deaths: doctor
Maria Rantanen did everything she could to stop her son from fatally overdosing, but it wasn't enough.
Judging efficacy of B.C.'s drug decriminalization plan may be impossible: Jane Philpott
A former federal health minister who championed decriminalization in Canada says a three-year model approved for British Columbia may not provide ample evidence to ensure the success of a policy that should have been implemented across the country.
2021 had deadliest first six months for drug toxicity in B.C., chief coroner says
British Columbia needs a significant shift in how it treats people who use drugs, the province's chief coroner said on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, after releasing statistics showing 1,011 people died from suspected illicit overdoses from January to June.
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
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.