BC Opioid Crisis News

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.

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

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

A group told me that they had experienced homelessness and struggled with substance abuse elsewhere, but the OPS and Under One Roof had since helped them tremendously.

Also, 'Not all who wander are lost'.

As Whistler sets up its first-ever drug-checking site, local support workers want to open up the conversation around drug use and addiction