The Downtown Business Improvement Area is partnering with Peterborough Public Health and PARN to provide naloxone kits at no cost to downtown businesses. Continue reading
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
Edmonton police have released a photo hoping to track down a person of interest in connection with a clandestine drug-processing and packaging lab in south Edmonton. Continue reading
Hendrik Ryskamp, the man who died inside Quinte Detention Centre in March, is fondly remembered by his mother and best friend. Continue reading
Peterborough County OPP say that around 6 p.m., officers stopped a vehicle on Highway 7 in Otonabee-South Monaghan Township, just east of Peterborough. 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
There were at least 4,460 opioid overdose deaths in Canada in 2018, a nearly 10 percent increase from the number of opioid deaths the year before. Continue reading
So far this year, there have been 19 deaths and 132 overdoses in Peterborough, police say. Continue reading
The Correctional Service of Canada says it has received a Health Canada exemption that would permit the site at Drumheller Institution by the end of the month. Continue reading
The University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services launched a course for doctors to learn how to properly prescribe and taper patients off opioids on Monday. Continue reading