Opioid crisis

Vancouver funds permanent position to lead overdose response team

The buddy system: How drug users became amateur medics in Canada’s opioid crisis

B.C. expands local overdose supports to rural, remote and Indigenous communities

Alberta sets record for opioid overdose deaths as province unveils app for prevention

Messy and clichéd opioid drama Crisis is aptly titled, no matter Armie Hammer’s involvement

Purdue Pharma offers plan to end Sackler control and mounting lawsuits

B.C. reports record 165 suspected overdose deaths in January: coroner

Toronto police lay criminal charges against parents of 14-month-old who died after ingesting illicit drugs

McKinsey’s top executive voted out as consulting firm faces reckoning over opioid crisis

Most Canadians support decriminalizing illegal drugs to combat overdose deaths, survey finds

B.C. advocates say relaxed drug offence penalties not enough to address rising overdose deaths

Developer’s $1-million donation to Vancouver police charity raises alarm

Out of the lab, into the marketplace: How one of Canada’s most celebrated scientists, Molly Shoichet, is bringing her key discovery to market

‘An overdose killed my son’: More families writing honest death notices about how their loved ones died

Ottawa to relax penalties for drug offences, encouraged to treat possession as a health issue

As Canada’s overdose deaths soar, the safe-supply debate enters a new and urgent phase

Portraits of loss: One hundred lives, felled by an overdose crisis

Two families open up about the opioid-related deaths of their children

Alberta Auditor-General to study opioid crisis response as part of a broad COVID-19 review

‘I surrender. Just please help me’: A son’s moving note to his parents underlines the pain of addiction

McKinsey settles for $573-million over role in opioid crisis

Toronto Public Health reports record-high for daily overdose calls

Opioid deaths highlight need to decriminalize hard-drug possession, police chiefs say

Searching for Angelica: The Globe follows up on an Oshawa drug user’s struggle in an opioid crisis and pandemic

Health officials warn new Illicit drug mix found in northern B.C. could impede naloxone

At the root of the opioid crisis is our belief that Big Pharma can cure pain. Can we kick that habit?

In an Afghan village of widows, the opium trade has taken a deadly toll

U.S. sues Walmart for alleged role in fuelling opioid crisis