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.
As the province celebrates its 5,000th life saved with an organ transplant, there's one group of people—a group that's often harshly stigmatized—who deserve special recognition for the milestone.
Data covering up to the end of May 2019 shows that fatal overdoses have repeatedly fallen below the province’s so-called “new normal” of 100 dead per month.
The numbers are in, and they are shockingly tragic: 11,577 Canadians—your friends, your families, your loved ones—died from apparent opioid-related overdoses between January 2016 and December 2018.
In Question Period, Ginette Petitpas Taylor also dodged the Vancouver Kingsway MP's suggestion that she do something about the poisoned street supply of drugs.
The Johns Hopkins scholar's memoir reveals problems and solutions that could help turn the tide on what he calls "America's crisis of pain management".
Since the synthetic-opioid fentanyl arrived in 2013, roughly 5,500 people across the province have died after taking drugs, leaving behind tens of thousands of mourning friends and family members.
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