opioids

What happens after Canadian patients are prescribed addictive opioids in the emergency department for short-term pain? The answer from a…

Police in London, Ont., say roughly half of the opioids they seized last year were prescribed, indicating they’re being diverted onto…

Police in London, Ont., say roughly half of the drugs they seized last year were prescribed opioids, indicating they’re being diverted…

Opioid painkillers are supposed to be closely guarded on their journey from manufacturer to patient.    They are highly addictive, can…

First Nations people in Alberta have been dying from opioids at more than eight times the rate of the rest of…

Health officials are warning of a surge in suspected overdose deaths in Toronto as two powerful synthetic opioids were recently…

When Martin Iron Shirt thinks of his sister, Lisa Red Young Man, he immediately remembers one thing in particular: she had…

The four people pictured above represent a typical day’s death toll from opioid poisonings in Alberta last year, the deadliest…

A study conducted by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control has found that prescribing medical-grade opioids dramatically reduced the rates…

A father wants to spread awareness about synthetic opioids sold to teens after he says his son died of an…