Here's a collection of our coverage of addiction-related issues, including Vancouver and B.C.'s opioid and overdose crisis, mental-health issues, various forms of addiction (including smoking, alcohol, sex, and gambling), harm reduction, treatment and therapies, and more.
For further coverage about mental-health issues, visit this webpage.
The history of the England's war on drugs recounts a decades-long series of missteps and unintended consequences that have ruined countless lives and failed to address demand for illicit narcotics.
B.C.'s epidemic of drug-overdose deaths is now so severe that illicit narcotics are single-handedly responsible for dragging down the average lifespan for the population of the entire province.
Amanda Page Brown completed her training to become an end-of-life doula last November and now is trying to secure funding to work full time as a death doula in the area of Vancouver hit hardest by Canada's overdose crisis.
No one can fault parents for making every attempt imaginable to help a child who has become addicted to drugs, but some efforts have a risk of unintended consequences, a new paper cautions.
Don't let the name fool you: the class of designer drugs often referred to as K2 or spice are significantly more problematic than good-old-fashioned marijuana.
A separate report released the same week states that during the first eight months of 2018, there was an average of 122 deaths per month in B.C., compared to an average of 23 deaths per month five years earlier.
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