Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 22:10:47 +0000
Overdose outreach team delivers services outside traditional health care sites to support people who can be hard to reach
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Credit to Author: Glenda Luymes| Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:04:46 +0000
“This is a torch in my heart,” says Tabitha Montgomery as she fights feelings of futility and works to break the stigma around addiction
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Credit to Author: Zak Vescera| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:18:34 +0000
As the overdose epidemic moves into its fifth year, another quieter crisis is emerging: the mental health of thousands of prevention workers and first responders
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Credit to Author: Zak Vescera| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:00:46 +0000
As the overdose epidemic moves into its fifth year, another quieter crisis is emerging: the mental health of thousands of prevention workers and first responders
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Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:53:54 +0000
Opinion: This week the province took the first steps toward bringing some order to the chaos and overturning years of neglect
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Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:58:59 +0000
OPINION: It’s an indication of how dysfunctional B.C.’s treatment system is that funding for one girl’s recovery only materialized after her story was on the front page.
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Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 01:50:17 +0000
17-year-old Karly has been clean and sober for 30 days after four years of battling addiction, but now her recovery is at risk unless her mother can find $9000 a month to pay for treatment
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Credit to Author: Max Daly| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:19:25 +0000
Big claims have been made about the infiltration of fentanyl into America’s cocaine supply. So we got some hard data.
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Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:51:02 +0000
A new report made the discovery after analyzing overdose deaths from 2009-2018.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:27:02 +0000
Experts are concerned we’ll see a rise in brain damage among people who survive multiple ODs in the age of fentanyl.
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