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.

News Features

Adapt Pharma exec seeks public's help in bringing Nasal Narcan to B.C.'s overdose-epidemic response

Since the onset of B.C.'s opioid crisis, authorities have flooded Vancouver's streets with the overdose-antidote naloxone. Now one pharmaceutical company argues there's a superior formulation.

Straight Talk

Coroner's data released over the holidays shows B.C.'s opioid epidemic continues with 100 dying every month

The number of drug-overdose deaths in British Columbia remained well over 100 per month through October and November 2018.

Health Notes

West Vancouver Police Department launches naloxone and addiction program

The West Vancouver Police Department has started a new program to assist people with drug addiction who are taken into police custody.

Straight Talk

Mayor’s Overdose Emergency Task Force calls for harm reduction beyond the Downtown Eastside

Drug users and activists are unimpressed with the new mayor's first foray into Vancouver's fentanyl crisis.

Commentary

Darian Kovacs: For young professionals, screen time is the new smoking

Always being connected and remaining available can lead to rapid burnout

Health Notes

Telus is offering a class in overdose response—perfect for the busy professional working in downtown Vancouver

If you’re scheduled to work in downtown Vancouver this Thursday (December 13), you’ve got one less excuse to tick a naloxone course off your list.

Health Features

B.C. Overdose Emergency Response Centre looking for new leaders after top officials' contracts expire without renewals

Colleagues say Dr. Patricia Daly and Miranda Compton were excellent to work with and wonder why their terms with the emergency response centre were not extended.

Straight Talk

Popular Nelson busker Sarah Valiunas' cause of death attributed to fentanyl

A Nelson musician popular around town for her street performances died of a fentanyl overdose last summer.

Straight Talk

Insite co-founder refuses to give up on federal investigation of overdose deaths, despite government's "wild good chase"

Dan Small, a former manager with Vancouver's Portland Hotel Society, believes that solving the country's opioid epidemic requires an investigation of the political circumstances that allowed for so many to die.

News Features

B.C.'s only supervised-inhalation site for drug users pressured to move out of its home in the Downtown Eastside

The outdoor smoking area connected to an overdose-prevention site at 58 East Hastings occupies space a street market wants to use for vending.

Health Notes

Science World offering "harm reduction 101" forum for Vancouver residents fighting the fentanyl crisis

That’s because an opioid epidemic is killing an average of four people in B.C. every day this year.

Health Notes

New doc Painkiller delves into B.C.'s opioid epidemic with nuance and compassion, finding possible solutions

Watch Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis, a thoughtful look at a health crisis that killed more than 4,000 people across Canada in 2017.