BC Opioid Crisis News

Initiative aims to provide better education for youth around substances they may be exposed to

Miklat expansion will eventually include a women's facility

The number of supervised consumption sites and services for people who use drugs in Victoria has grown, but it’s not keeping pace with need, advocates say.

Because if you care, you will ask questions of the media, each other, yourselves, our community leaders, law enforcement and governments.

Current Richmond city councillor weighs in on the on-going drug poisoning crisis.

Sebastian Witt died of an overdose in May 2015. Not enough has changed since then, says his father

Brenda Doherty’s 15-year-old daughter Steffanie Georgina-Anne Lawrence died from a fentanyl overdose in 2018; current government supports voluntary care instead.

The toxic drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in B.C. including the son of Richmond News’ assistant editor Maria Rantanen.

Facility’s services, including safe-consumption resources and drug testing, have helped save lives, city says

North and West Vancouver are not immune to opioid crisis, says medical health officer