Opioid addicts Women, Whiter and Older

Opioid addicts Women, Whiter and Older

The face of the opioid addict is rapidly changing these days as people are getting addicted to opioids through the legal version, then moving to the illegal version because it’s easier to obtain. Opiates and heroin are really moving to the suburbs and affecting...
Opioid Overdose – The devastating impact in BC

Opioid Overdose – The devastating impact in BC

Opioid overdose will kill 800 people in B.C. this year if the death toll continues at its current rate. In the first three months of 2016, fentanyl was detected in half of 200 opioid-overdose deaths. Fentanyl is indiscriminately killing entrenched street users and...
Opioid Wars – Fault Lines

Opioid Wars – Fault Lines

The United States is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. But it is not a crisis of illegal drugs, it is one of prescription painkillers. Behind the recent flurry of headlines about a massive surge in heroin use is a much more widespread...