BC Opioid Crisis News

BC Coroners Service released preliminary data confirming more than 1,600 British Columbians have lost their lives to toxin, unregulated drugs during the first 8 months of 2023.

The number of supervised consumption sites and services for people who use drugs in Victoria has grown, but it’s not keeping pace with need, advocates say.

Because if you care, you will ask questions of the media, each other, yourselves, our community leaders, law enforcement and governments.

Current Richmond city councillor weighs in on the on-going drug poisoning crisis.

Sebastian Witt died of an overdose in May 2015. Not enough has changed since then, says his father

Brenda Doherty’s 15-year-old daughter Steffanie Georgina-Anne Lawrence died from a fentanyl overdose in 2018; current government supports voluntary care instead.

Though the geography comes with natural struggles, Bowen Island has been employing methods which have held the worst of the opioid crisis at bay

Facility’s services, including safe-consumption resources and drug testing, have helped save lives, city says

The toxic drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in B.C. including the son of Richmond News’ assistant editor Maria Rantanen.

North and West Vancouver are not immune to opioid crisis, says medical health officer