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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. 

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.

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.

The City of Kelowna has released a video of former RCMP superintendent Bill McKinnon addressing drug and homelessness problems in the city’s downtown core.

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.

An act of defiance by patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn in 1969 sparked an LGBTQ2 rights uprising and pushed a community to show its pride.

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.

At least three provinces have reported an increase in calls to poison control related to semaglutide and liraglutide drugs, diabetes medication also used for weight-loss.

Watch the full broadcast of The West Block from Sunday, October 7, 2018 with Mercedes Stephenson.

Drugs were seized at all three locations on Saturday and will be tested to see what exactly caused the deaths of five people.

Another company owned by the Sackler family - makers of OxyContin - has used misleading claims and drug reps dressed up as doctors to peddle its signature painkiller in China

Racine Cessford died because she had ingested a fentanyl-laced street drug.

“At a time when we're seeing record numbers of overdose deaths in Canada, this is a time we need to be expanding and scaling up our supervised consumption and harm reduction services."