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Source: The Other Side of the Opioid Epidemic: Chronic Pain Patients|the Fix.com “It is borderline genocide,” said DeLuca, 37. “You are allowing [chronic pain patients] to go home and essentially suffer until they kill themselves.” Last year, Lauren DeLuca went to the emergency room in the middle of the night, ...

Source: A Super-Spicy Plant Could Help End the Opioid Crisis|Futurism.com It’s 10,000 times hotter than the world’s hottest pepper. Watch Your Tongue You probably don’t go around biting into plants covered in needles. But if you happened to chomp down on Euphorbia resinifera, a cactus-like plant also known as the resin spurge, ...

Source: Naloxone 101: Frontlines of the opioid crisis|the Concordian Saving lives and breaking down stigmas with public education “I’m here today because there isn’t a very effective public education program,” said Richard Davy, a first-year social work student at McGill, after wrapping up the first in a series of naloxone ...

Source: After a deadly day in Windsor’s opioid crisis, front-line workers mourn one of their own – then soldier on|Globe & Mail Originally published November 16th, 2018 Within 24 hours, four men in Ontario’s auto capital died of suspected overdoses – including one of the support workers who helped some of ...

Source: How America Convinced the World to Demonize Drugs|Vice.com Originally published August 13th 2018 Much of the world used to treat drug addiction as a health issue, not a criminal one. And then America got its way. In Baltimore, a young black man is sent to prison for felony cannabis possession. ...

Source: What I saw in a day on the Downtown Eastside shocked me|The Globe & Mail How have we let things go so wrong for Canada’s roughest neighbourhood? It’s just another day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A young man sits on the wet sidewalk, his legs spread wide, sucking the smoke ...