On July 16, the British Columbia Coroners Service released its monthly overdose fatality report. The impact of the lost lives…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its analysis of overdose deaths from 2019. The new projections…
You can draw interwoven lines of suffering right down through the Americas. British Columbia, Canada has announced 175 illicit-drug overdose…
Since the December 8, 2019 fatal overdose of Jarad Higgins—a Black rapper who went by the stage name Juice WRLD…
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to New York City. The Minneapolis City…
As many US jurisdictions have eased pandemic restrictions, new coronavirus cases have been spiking again. At the same time, regions…
Friday, June 26 marks the Support, Don’t Punish 2020 Global Day of Action—an annual show of international solidarity against the…
Imagine being on a medication, any medication, and all a sudden it doesn’t work anymore. It only works for about…
A little-known synthetic cannabinoid, a class of compounds colloquially referred to as "K2" or "spice," has been recently popping up…
March 2020. The stakes were enormous and the urgency acute: 1,000 of our patients were about to be pushed into…