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

Four people died in Richmond of suspected overdoses or drug poisonings in October, according to the BC Coroners Service.

Sixteen people in Richmond died between January and September of suspected drug poisonings and overdoses.

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.

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

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