BC Opioid Crisis News

“If no one wants people to use drugs on the streets, we need to establish spaces inside where they can use, be monitored and stay alive.”

Advocating for a safe inhalation site is one of the city’s priorities as part of its crises response pilot project.

New data from BC Coroners Service shows that 2% of all unregulated drug deaths in B.C. in 2024 were in New Westminster.

Initiative aims to provide better education for youth around substances they may be exposed to

Miklat expansion will eventually include a women's facility

Death review panel calls for safer drug access amid rising deaths in New West and across BC

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.

Current Richmond city councillor weighs in on the on-going drug poisoning crisis.

Sebastian Witt died of an overdose in May 2015. Not enough has changed since then, says his father