But the clinical director for offender health services in Nova Scotia defends the health-care access inmates have at the Burnside facility.

“Even if I gave her a few drops, this could have killed her.”

U of S pharmacy and medical students joined forces to bring fentanyl testing strips to Saskatoon, offering a solution to the high amount of overdoses in the province.

An Edmonton psychiatrist feels certain factors put the South Asian community at greater risk for opioid addiction. He's opened a new culturally sensitive clinic.

Two Regina physicians who could prescribe opioid assistance therapy had their licenses revoked by the professional regulator, affecting 700 patients.

Two Regina doctors have been charged with improperly prescribing methadone by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan.

The man has been released and is scheduled to appear in Amherst court on March 11.

A Saskatoon-based methadone manager says he's not surprised to hear that there have been nine overdoses in November at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre.

According to the report, released to The Canadian Press under freedom-of-information legislation, the intercom had been cut some time earlier, in contravention of provincial rules.

Nova Scotia's freedom of information law is becoming "an exercise in frustration," the privacy commissioner said after the government partially rejected her recommendations on a report on a man's jailhouse death.