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 ...

As part of Overdose Awareness Week, KPIX is presenting a series of special reports on the opioid crisis through the lens of another West Coast city. Much like San Francisco, Vancouver has been ...

A novel strategy for people with opioid use disorder has the potential to transform lives and improve outcomes, and may become standard practice, thanks to a promising new study led by a Vancouver ...

Since the province declared opioid overdoses and deaths a public health emergency seven years ago, at least 11,807 people in the province have died. Since Canada announced a new drugs and substances ...

Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services is limiting the number of shifts firefighters work at its Downtown Eastside firehall due to the overwhelming number of overdose calls personnel must attend.

Troy Brynelson / OPB The City of Vancouver is starting its first mobile opioid treatment program. Officials finalized a contract for it Monday night after approving the program in January. The mobile ...

Nine people died from fentanyl opioid overdoses in the Canadian city of Vancouver in just the past 24 hours, Mayor Gregor Robertson said Friday. The spike in deaths comes as Canada — like its neighbor ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With firefighters on the frontlines of the drug crisis, the Vancouver Fire Department is handing Narcan to anyone who has received overdose treatment from first responders.