BC Opioid Crisis News

Initiative aims to provide better education for youth around substances they may be exposed to

Miklat expansion will eventually include a women's facility

The number of supervised consumption sites and services for people who use drugs in Victoria has grown, but it’s not keeping pace with need, advocates say.

Current Richmond city councillor weighs in on the on-going drug poisoning crisis.

Sebastian Witt died of an overdose in May 2015. Not enough has changed since then, says his father

Brenda Doherty’s 15-year-old daughter Steffanie Georgina-Anne Lawrence died from a fentanyl overdose in 2018; current government supports voluntary care instead.

Though the geography comes with natural struggles, Bowen Island has been employing methods which have held the worst of the opioid crisis at bay

The toxic drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in B.C. including the son of Richmond News’ assistant editor Maria Rantanen.

Facility’s services, including safe-consumption resources and drug testing, have helped save lives, city says