For the first time in British Columbia, the public will be able to check drugs at home with take-home fentanyl test strips.

The B.C. government is providing new municipal funding supports for communities to find local solutions to the overdose crisis.

China reiterated that it is making extensive efforts toward controlling the synthetic opioid and should not be labeled the main origin of fentanyl to the U.S.

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 grieving parents of a 19-year-old who died from fentanyl on June 29 are calling on the Quebec government to prevent overdoses.

The society's director says she's noticed a recent spike in overdoses ever since a type of psychoactive drug also known as "benzos" came on the Vancouver scene.

In the months following the man's death, police say they tracked down the dealer who had sold him the drugs.

A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a Barrie hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled.

A police investigation into a known suspended driver in Hamilton resulted in multiple drug charges and the seizure of what they believe to be heroin and fentanyl.

The B.C. public health emergency declared by Dr. Perry Kendall on Apr. 14, 2016 over the soaring number of drug overdose deaths, still persists today.