Groups offer more support for Canadian families of drug users who have fatally overdosed
Jennens, whose two sons died of overdose, says the two Stronger Together B.C. groups are led by volunteer facilitators with lived experience. “We also …
An American Epidemic
Jennens, whose two sons died of overdose, says the two Stronger Together B.C. groups are led by volunteer facilitators with lived experience. “We also …
More than 87,200 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses, primarily related to opioids, between September 2019 and September 2020.
The Drug Enforcement Administration will host the 20th biannual Take Back … The increase in drug overdose deaths appeared to begin prior to the …
Ricky Lynn Hinton, 59, of Little Rock pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Brian … It has been linked to hundreds of overdose deaths nationwide.
Street wardens with drug overdose kits are believed to have helped save the … This can help reverse the effects of a heroin overdose, allowing time for … Middlesbrough has among the highest number of drug–related deaths in the …
This week was the five-year anniversary of B.C.’s declaration of a public health emergency due to a toxic drug supply causing fatal overdoses. Back in …
Interior Health saw a record year of overdose deaths with 283 recorded in 2020. But without the recently opened OPS in Vernon, that number could …
A tragic record. The coroners service currently estimates 345 Saskatchewan people died of drug overdoses in 2020. Source: Sask Coroners Service, …
Advocates have long argued for such sites as a way of preventing overdose deaths. Hindley said these locations are not publicly accessible and …
An analysis of last year’s fatal overdoses also showed that a contrasting blend of drugs was also responsible for more than half of Cambria’s 71 deaths.