The limited harm reduction and treatment services available in Regina during the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted pre-existing gaps in the system.

The photo is part of a national campaign aimed at signalling support for harm-reduction measures to prevent overdose deaths. 

The audit findings, released July 16, alleged the site's operator, ARCHES, mismanaged public funds.

According to Quebec's public health institute, fentanyl was detected in 11 per cent of deaths caused by an opioid overdose between January 2019 and March 2020.

The Canadian Association of National Police chiefs has endorsed the decriminalization of simple possession of illicit drugs.

'This is a place where we really could use massive scale-up and that would be very helpful in addressing both the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose crisis,'

For those dealing with addiction, life amid the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened the struggle.

Public health authorities in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark are out with a warning about a bad batch of drugs, following three fatal overdoses in the month of May.

The fentanyl test strips are available for take-home at community-based agencies in Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Kamloops, Merritt, Cranbrook and Nelson.

City staff say they've spent the past few months investigating the issue and plan to draft and introduce a bylaw giving council the option to regulate the distribution of needles.