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 drugs can be powerfully effective treatments for those in pain, but they can also be extremely dangerous. This episode explores how opioids can lead to dependence, abuse and addiction, and the effects that opioid abuse have had in America. The episode explores...
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...
A Long Look at Opioids In this video, the History of Opioids, you’ll watch a historical overview of people and opioids. They take a look at when people first started using opioids, how they’ve changed over the years, and ways that they’ve been both...
Overdose Waiting to Happen A new drug on the streets, W-18 has been called “an overdose waiting to happen.” This powerful synthetic opioid considered up to 10,000 time stronger than morphine and 100 times stronger than Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller. Synthetic opioid...
The War on Drugs The War on Drugs is killing innocent people. We have seen a dramatic increase of opioid related deaths from Fentanyl in Western Canada. Last year alone there were over 400 Fentanyl-related deaths here. Fentanyl is being made in clandestine labs...
