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Prairie Harm Reduction said its investigation into the shortfall has just begun, but added it does not believe there is evidence of fraud, theft or personal misuse of funds.

More than 18,000 people have died from toxic illicit drugs in British Columbia since a public health emergency was declared on April 14, 2016. 

Ontario is giving seven defunded consumption sites time to transition to its abstinence-based model — homelessness and addiction recovery treatment, or HART, hubs. 

Demonstrators placed a long line of photos memorializing some of the thousands of British Columbians whose lives have been lost to drugs on the steps to the B.C. legislature.

Ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31, the group, Moms Stop The Harm, gathered at the site of the billboard.

Flash Pharmacy and Medical Centre has been given approval to open at 66 West Hastings, and will be the sixth in a tight geographic area.

A nurse practitioner whose research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is dedicated to helping children and teens manage pain has won a Gairdner Award.

Saskatoon’s only supervised consumption site is raising alarm bells about an increase in overdoses in 2025.

The government announced Thursday that drug injection sites in locations including Toronto, Ottawa and Thunder Bay will all be given funding to switch to rehabilitation facilities.

A team at Lawson Health Research Institute and St. Joseph’s Health Care London has created an online tool to help people living with a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

In the Interior, overdose and poisoning calls were up nine percent in 2022 to more than 5,900. Calls also rose in Kelowna to more than 1,800 last year.

'It's impossible, any day of the week, to not hear about somebody else who has died ... people who you have known for many, many years and know extremely well,' Wendy Muckle said.

More than 1,037 opioid-related emergency department visits were recorded in the region last year, nearly double the number seen in 2019, according to health unit figures.

Organizations in Kelowna and Penticton have planned events to mark this year’s International Overdose Awareness Day.

A new provincial strategy to fight addiction could backfire, according to patients. Harm reduction advocates say the changes could put people at higher risk for opioid poisoning.

From Norm Macdonald to Michael K. Williams to Jessica Walter, we lost many stars in 2021.

Just ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day -- August 31 -- a Saint-Lazare family hopes the death of their son will warn others of the dangers of opioids.

The concert series kicks off on International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31.

A Winnipeg support group is going above an beyond to make sure those who need support get it, before it's too late.

HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. - Perhaps there was one heartbreak too many for Mindy McCready.