Nine years after the start of a public health emergency that has killed more than 16,000 people, B.C.'s new chief coroner ...

A group that has been fighting to improve access to opioid agonist therapy for decades has filed a complaint with the BC ...

The analysis, based on data from sources including the USP Medicine Supply Map, found that 71% of the drugs identified as the most vulnerable are injectables, including sodium chloride injection, ...

British Columbia's solicitor general says there's no evidence of widespread diversion of safe-supply opioids, after a recent drug seizure was cited by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition ...

The final grim tally of suspected toxic drug deaths in Richmond in 2024 came to 25. According to the latest statistics from the BC Coroners Service ... has recently cracked down on hydromorphone - ...

Guy Felicella, a harm reduction advocate from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, says safe consumption sites help reduce the harm around drug use ... reporter for CBC British Columbia.

the British Columbia Association of Chiefs of Police offered its approval, saying it recognizes the importance of harm reduction measures, including safe supply, but diversion is an issue.

"Safe-supply programs are not driving those deaths. The coroner data has been very clear on this that it is the unregulated drug market, not pharmaceuticals." More than 16,000 people have died in ...

And he was not an addict," she said, before renewing calls for a public inquiry into what she called the "failed experiment of safe ... died in British Columbia since the toxic drug crisis was ...

VICTORIA — The New Democrats halted the free and easy distribution of safer-supply drugs this week ... there is widespread diversion of safe supply drugs.” In short, NDP policy amounted ...