Vancouver, San Francisco seeing similar debate on how to approach drug crisis 08:35. On this Overdose Awareness Week, KPIX is looking at the opioid crisis though the shared experiences of San ...

Vancouver explores different solutions to the fentanyl crisis with safe-use sites, regulated drugs 07:12. The last week of August is Overdose Awareness Week, an international campaign to address a ...

Drug policy advocacy groups are coming together across Vancouver on August 31 to mark International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). Earlier this week, the BC Coroners Service reported that 198 ...

The parents of a Vancouver teen who died of an overdose in November spent what would have been his 17th birthday at his high school to remember him and raise awareness about the toxic drug crisis.

A few years later, she learned about Overdose Awareness Day and decided to begin marking it in Vancouver with the first local event in 2017. Fortner now partners with SWACH, among other agencies ...

Drug users can safely consume their drugs at the Overdose Prevention Society, in Vancouver, where drugs are tested for fentanyl. They talk openly about what led them to start using, and about the ...

“We’re not like the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. We’re not here to scare you off. We’re here to spread awareness,” said student Zamyrah Scott, a third-year club ...

On this Overdose awareness week, KPIX is looking at the opioid crisis though the shared experiences of San Francisco and Vancouver, another city hit particularly hard over the past 10 years. While ...