(“ Drug dealers are easily outplaying the province”) claims that “700 suspected safe supply pharmaceuticals” were recently ...

A BC Conservative MLA has described the "unsurmountable" price paid by her family in the province's toxic drug crisis, which she said had claimed the lives of two of her brothers.

The health minister says the "significant" change to end the take-home model will be difficult for some but is designed to reduce the criminal diversion of prescribed alternatives.

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

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 ...

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

British Columbia ... prescription drugs appeared to ignore scientific evidence. “[Driving] people away from the illicit black market by providing them access to a regulated supply of the ...

The announcement Wednesday from Health Minister Josie Osborne and Public Safety Minister ... that is laced with toxic drugs. The acknowledgment of diversion of safer supply is a notable shift ...

"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 ...

Haertel grew up in Kamloops and graduated from the culinary program and Thompson Rivers University before moving to Vancouver ...