Health Canada doesn't think requiring potent painkillers to be tamper-resistant will have a significant effect on their misuse and abuse in Canada.

Saskatoon police seize meth, crack cocaine, Hydromorph-Contin, charge five people in two separate drug busts.

Readers share their stories of struggling with opioid use, abuse and addiction.

The "data's mixed" on supervised injection sites, Stephen Harper says. What does the evidence say works -- and doesn't work -- when it comes to battling drug abuse and addiction?

Prescription opioids kill hundreds of Canadians a year. Why are doctors still prescribing so many?

Ontario needs to rethink the way it treats addiction and pain if it wants to tackle a worsening prescription opioid health crisis, critics say.

Preliminary 2013 data from Ontario's coroner indicates these powerful drugs are killing more people each year - and the usual suspects are being replaced by drugs that are just as addictive and even more potent.

In a call for proposals published Friday, the federal government said it’s looking for suggestions on how to make prescribing safer, including better training and education for the health professionals giving out these powerful painkillers.

Canada's becoming a source of potent, easily abused painkillers being smuggled into the U.S. And the country's lax rules and lack of data worry American authorities.