The B.C. Coroners Service said toxic drug deaths in British Columbia were down 13 per cent last year, with the toll now lower than any year since 2020. Chief Coroner Dr. Jatinder Baidwan said the ...
The B.C. Supreme Court has found Mounties in Vernon committed numerous and flagrant breaches of an accused drug dealer’s Charter rights, using a hit-and-run investigation as a ruse to ensnare ...
when people openly used and dealt drugs there. The Vancouver Housing Authority, which operates the two apartment complexes, has stepped up security and is working with police to curb crime at the ...
Veru said Monday that its investigational drug helped preserve lean mass in patients taking the obesity treatment Wegovy, though some experts were skeptical that the topline results were adequate ...
In a Phase 2b trial, older patients taking Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Veru’s experimental drug, called enobosarm, lost on average 1.2% of lean mass after 16 weeks, compared with a 4.1% loss in ...
Overdoses happened because people didn’t know how much of a drug to take. Now, Vancouver has a poisoned drug crisis. The unregulated drug supply is laced with highly toxic substances like ...
with drugs being normalised in everyday life.” A homelessness unit in Inverclyde has reported multiple occupants overdosing on a red liquid suspected to be Lean. Another person in Argyll was ...
Photographs of overdose victims are displayed as members of Moms Stop the Harm mark International Overdose Awareness Day, in Vancouver, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck ...
Toxic drug deaths were down for the first time in years across British Columbia in 2024, though some communities still saw increases, including northern Vancouver Island. Throughout 2024 ...