A new report suggests that providing legal heroin to users would help reduce overdose deaths by ensuring the drug supply used is free of fentanyl. Continue reading
A proposal recommended adding naloxone kits to 29 public facilities across London. Continue reading
Many of the people staying at Moncton’s emergency Out of the Cold shelter don’t know where they will go when the temporary shelter closes at the end of March. Continue reading
Officials say a new batch of fentanyl has arrived in the region and this time it’s bright yellow in colour. Continue reading
The Saskatchewan government is encouraging people living with opioid addictions to seek treatment, and make use of harm reduction services. Continue reading
The B.C. government announced on Friday that Interior Health’s opioid agonist treatment clinic will now offer longer hours and open on weekends. Continue reading
Artist Domenic Esposito is protesting the opioid crisis by placing a giant sculpture of a burnt spoon in front of the offices of a Rhode Island pharmaceutical company. Continue reading
Artist Alex Bierk has lost friends to opioid overdoses and wants to address the crisis through his art. Continue reading
A former Insys employee claims a regional sales director gave a doctor a lap dance to help convince him to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray. Continue reading
Hydromorphone is difficult to dissolve, and people who inject drugs keep and share needles to use the drug residue, researchers say. Continue reading