Drugs

By Tom Eley and Clarissa Kurniawan The stories that include fentanyl usually consist of death, overdose and danger, always painting the bleak landscape that this drug has facilitated.  This is not that story.   Kevin Parker, who…

By Hannah Mondiwa Last month, high-level fentanyl trafficker Abd’l-Malik Rhyan Loubissi-Morris was sentenced in a Kelowna courtroom to 11 years in jail by Justice Steven Wilson. But it was not his first time before a B.C. judge.…

By Sarah Amy Leung Eight years into B.C.’s toxic drug crisis, a youth-led organization is stepping up to inform students about overdose prevention and the dangers of fentanyl. Chloe Goodison, a current health sciences student at SFU,…

By Catherine McCallum Early one spring morning in a quiet neighbourhood, a fire truck followed by an ambulance stops in front of a bungalow. Soon the fire truck and the ambulance crew leave without a patient. Within an hour, police…

By Kalvin Moses Street drugs can be tested in minutes to detect even trace amounts of potentially lethal fentanyl. There are several different technologies available to test for fentanyl, according to Kevin Hollett, associate director…

By Melbah Jacob and Chris Harcourt Media coverage of the province’s toxic drug crisis has created stigma and focused too narrowly on residents of the Downtown Eastside, say B.C. residents who’ve lost loved ones. And they say that drug…

Reported by Adam Levi The answer to combatting Canada’s overuse of prescription pills could be as simple as increasing your sense of healthy skepticism, said a health policy expert at a lecture put on by the Langara College Retirees…

Produced by Joe Ayres Joe Ayres speaks with Alan Cassels, an internationally respected academic researcher, journalist and author, who co-authored Selling Sickness about the importance and impacts prescription drugs has on users.…

The use of traditional opioids in South Asian communities could potentially carry an additional risk, according to Fraser Health, which recently alerted health professionals to lead contaminated drugs.