Canadian Opioid Crisis
How Depressing Overdose Stats Could Derail Opioid Crisis Progress
We’ve seen it happen with climate change. Here’s how experts keep going without feeling doomed.
More Vancouver Opioid Users Are Choosing Weed as a Substitute
Cannabis is more popular than methadone according to a four-month survey at an overdose prevention site.
How Ignorance Is Making the Overdose Crisis Worse
Only a quarter of Canadians know how to spot the signs of an overdose.
Fake Prescription Pills Are a Threat to Our Generation
Lil Peep died from an accidental overdose believed to have been caused by fentanyl and Xanax.
How Drug Users Would Solve the Opioid Crisis
Users say they want to end prohibition, seek reparations, and get invested in pain alternatives like weed. In Vancouver, that’s already happening.
Court-Imposed ‘Red Zones’ Are Ruining Drug Users’ Lives
Canada’s first in-depth study of release conditions found life-threatening consequences for users banned from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Why So Many Women Are Saving Lives During Canada's Opioid Crisis
Meet the nurses, mothers, social workers, and activists trying to prevent drug overdoses across the country.
How Massive Busts Could Create More Harm for People Who Use Drugs
With the biggest drug bust in Ontario history—$250-million—the province’s cocaine supply may have just gotten more dangerous.
Here’s How North America’s Most Advanced Festival Drug Testing Is Going So Far
The 15,000-person dance party known as Shambhala is using a mass spectrometer to detect trace amounts of opioids this weekend.
Photos of a Sibling Relationship Scarred by Opioid Addiction
Amid an overdose crisis in Vancouver, photographer Jackie Dives has documented years of her brother’s drug use and recovery.
Fentanyl Overdose Survivors Are a Hidden Health Crisis
Brain damage, paralysis, and organ failure are just a few of the lasting problems some OD survivors take with them.
How Overdosing on Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Changed My Life
“I was paralyzed from the waist down for a month and a half. I couldn’t even go to the washroom.”