The Future of Drugs Is a Synthetic Cocktail From Hell
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 16:25:15 GMT
The worst wave of the overdose crisis is here and it’s drugs worse than fentanyl you’ve likely never heard of.
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17 and Hooked on Benzo Dope
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:57:55 GMT
As the drug supply in North America is flooded with highly potent synthetic drugs, teenage overdose deaths are skyrocketing—even though young people aren’t using more.
Read moreBlack balloons, rallies, calls for safer supply in B.C. on sombre OD anniversary
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:11:12 +0000
Lisa Lapointe says 529 people died in 2015, but that number nearly doubled a few months after the public health declaration, and death records have been shattered again and again.
Read moreDrug Users Are Writing ‘Do Not Prosecute’ Letters So Their Dealers Aren’t Punished If They Die
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:20:24 GMT
The letters are a response to cases where dealers are charged and sentenced like murderers when their customers overdose.
Read moreAt least 174 people died from B.C.’s toxic drug supply in February: B.C. Coroners Service
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:32:07 +0000
Six of the lives lost in February were people under 19 years old.
Read moreAt least 174 people died from B.C.'s toxic drug supply in February: B.C. Coroners Service
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:17:43 +0000
Six of the lives lost in February were people under 19 years old.
Read moreDrug Users Can Now Legally Buy Pure Fentanyl for Dirt Cheap in Vancouver
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:28:19 GMT
A Vancouver harm-reduction organization is selling powder fentanyl capsules at street prices to stop overdoses.
Read moreDrug Users Can Now Legally Buy Pure Fentanyl for Dirt Cheap in Canada
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:28:19 GMT
A Vancouver harm-reduction organization is selling powder fentanyl capsules at street prices to stop overdoses.
Read moreDrug-testing expansion in Metro not enough to end fatal overdoses: critics
Credit to Author: Sarah Grochowski| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:36:37 +0000
The calls for service expansion come as illicit drug toxicity became the leading cause of “unnatural death” in the province.
Read moreAppeal Court reduces sentence for fentanyl trafficker by one year
Credit to Author: Keith Fraser| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:16:30 +0000
In a split decision, B.C.’s highest court has reduced the jail sentence for a young fentanyl trafficker by a year.
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