Even when a family member gets lower doses of opioids, the overdose risk is almost three times higher than in a family where nobody has been prescribed them. Continue reading →

Public Health Ontario has released updated statistics that indicate 388 people died from opioid-related causes from July to September 2018, down from 414 deaths during the same period in 2017. Continue reading →

Provincial police have laid manslaughter charges in two separate suspected opioid overdoses in southern Ontario. Continue reading →

The B.C. Centre for Substance Use said changing the payment schedule could lead to benefits, as long as it doesn’t take a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Continue reading →

A group of community agencies has launched the Hamilton Drug Strategy to cut down on the harms associated with substance use. Continue reading →

The U.S. attorney’s office alleges that the doctor used his family practice to illegally prescribe opioids. Continue reading →

Small communities in Canada have hospitalization rates for opioid poisonings more than double those in the country’s largest cities, according to 2017 data presented last year by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Continue reading →

A woman in her 30s is yet another inmate to die in jail. The centre has seen eight possible opioid overdose calls this year. Continue reading →