Painkiller

• ‘Opioid epidemic:’ Pharmacists call for stricter access to low dose codeine

  In most of Canada, codeine comes in eight-milligram pills, mixed with two other ingredients, that can be purchased without a prescription.

  Health

  Jun 2, 2019
  
• ‘It’s all money:’ Huge profit margins drive fentanyl trafficking

  A veteran RCMP drug officer says dealers have found a way to make big profits in Manitoba with fentanyl.

  Crime

  Jan 11, 2017
  
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• 14 people fatally overdose on ‘painkiller’ in California

  Fourteen people in the Sacramento area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised as a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  Apr 26, 2016