Toxic Street Drugs

• Edmontonians remember loved ones on International Overdose Awareness Day

  Organizations like Moms Stop the Harm advocate for harm reduction strategies while the provincial government focuses on a treatment-first approach.

  Canada

  Aug 31, 2023
  
• The other health crisis parents say must be treated as urgently as COVID-19

  Toxic drug overdoses have gotten worse since the pandemic began. A group of parents want governments to treat the crisis as urgently as COVID-19.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2021
  
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• A Canadian first: B.C. registered nurses to begin prescribing drugs to treat opioid use

  It has been almost five years since B.C. declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency. Since then, more than 6,000 people have died due to toxic street-drug use.

  Health

  Feb 8, 2021