Category: Health and Society

On Friday, Justice, Accountability & Victim Advocacy (JAVA) mothers of victims who died of drug overdoses gathered at Highland Park Cemetery. Their …

Several parents whose children died from drug overdoses shared their stories. “To have it skipped over, their deaths skipped over, and not prioritized as …

Signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose: · Slow or weak breathing, not breathing · Drowsiness and difficulty staying awake, or can’t be woken up …

Using drugs alone can increase the risk of a fatal drug overdose. … Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of overdose deaths were in B.C. was …

And that’s great news if you consider opioid overdose deaths increased during the pandemic, according to the CDC,” said Carlos Briano, public …

Since 2016, almost 20,000 Canadians have died of opioid overdoses — and the death rates are increasing. This is the context in which the federal …

Ryan Ainsworth was one of two 13-year-old students at Treasure Mountain Junior High School who died within days of each other from overdoses of an …

A chart of opioid mortality rate data by zip codes. The chart is available in the Cook County Department of Public Health’s Opioid Epidemic in …

“Canada continues to struggle with historic rates of fatal overdoses and MySafe is the most scalable way of addressing the overdose crisis head-on.”.

It turns out that greater availability of cannabis access via storefront dispensaries and retailers is associated with declines in opioid–related deaths, …