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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 ...

Source: My Year On Death Row|National Post Originally published August 23, 2018 Inside Canada’s ‘other opioid epidemic’ — patients cut off from medical painkillers By Dawn Rae Downton Illustrations by Mike Faille It started in my feet, which ached constantly whether I wore flats, heels, trainers, or went barefoot. Physiotherapy and orthotics? ...

Source: How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis|The Guardian Originally published on August 29th 2017 The campaign to cut off heroin supplies has encouraged the growth of labs producing the opioid. We need to instead embrace a public health approach A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to ...

Source: New study sheds light on who’s dying in B.C.’s opioid crisis|Peace River Record-Gazette “What we’re trying to do is determine the trajectory of the individual who died so we can find out what his or her pathway was to this particular issue.”   The first report of a project aimed ...

Source: When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis|The Atlantic Originally published September 6, 2017 Some shareholders of a major drug distributor are arguing that the company’s goals should be more in line with society’s. A pile of oxycodone pills JOHN MOORE / GETTY In a year of big stories, ...

Source: Beyond naloxone: use drugs for drug users, Edmonton city committee hears|CBC.ca Edmonton needs a safe drug supply, advocate argues Alberta Health Services says more than 100,000 take-home naloxone kits have been distributed in the province in less than a year. (CBC News) The city and province could help address the current ...