Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants to see all drugs decriminalized, but it's not that easy, Mike Smyth argues.

A preliminary investigation indicates all three ingested a white powder, which police believe could have contained fentanyl or another toxic substance. 

There have been more than 15,000 apparent opioid-related deaths in Canada since 2016.

"If I fell down, I was going to get back up": Guy Felicella battled addiction for decades on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and won.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a drug shortage and a tainted supply of purple heroin heavily laced with fentanyl.

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.