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Opioid overdose deaths in Canada are falling, but there's growing concerns on a certain veterinary tranquilizer being cut into fentanyl and other opioids.

On June 26, 2024, RCMP officers were called to a home in the 7600 block of McMaster Crescent after a 16-year-old girl was found unconscious.

The Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence said a study it conducted found the closure of an overdose prevention site in Red Deer, Alta. did not result in an increase deaths.

Kinew now says the province is taking a step back from this approach and ensuring that different health-care interventions are built within the site before opening.

The alert says no information is currently available on what substance or substances are causing the multiple overdoses and deaths reported in the Regina area.

Minors will not be allowed to use Manitoba's supervised drug consumption site, although staff may have to use their own judgment for young-looking people without identification

This came after the province forced the closure of nine other such sites last year that it deemed were too close to schools and daycares.

The government of Alberta says the controversial supervised consumption sites in Calgary and Lethbridge will be closing down at the end of June.

Montreal Public Health officials are warning a purple syrup that mimics the look of cough medicine is a fake product that can be lethal.

In the months leading up to his death, Lee Earnshaw tried to access treatment on five different occasions but was turned away.

Members of Calgary's city executive committee are expected to vote today on whether to support the closure of the city’s sole supervised consumption site.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has issued a provincewide drug alert as poisonings rise, warning that medetomidine is increasingly present in the unregulated drug supply.

Calgary police have charged a 17-year-old with a long list of drug offences following two suspected fatal drug overdoses on the Tsuut'ina Nation last summer.

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

The deaths at shelters announced by the mayor don't come as a surprise to people like Sam Watts, Welcome Hall Mission CEO and executive director.

British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says the province is spending $50 million to expand availability of anti-overdose nasal naloxone across the province.

Kouri Richins, 35, slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that her husband Eric drank, according to prosecutors.

Between Dec. 20 and Dec. 28, paramedics in Toronto went to 122 overdose calls, a number that is 35 per cent higher than the two-year average. 

The Okanagan woman said her son David, who was 37 and a UBC student at the time, struggled with mental health and used substances to self-medicate.

Once again, someone has decided that they've got proof that Kurt Cobain was murdered. This requires another debunking.