BC Opioid Crisis News

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.

‘And with something like the opioid crisis… the cost of a single mistake is so high’: Louise Coatta

Also, 'Not all who wander are lost'.

With city suffering dozens of deaths every year from toxic drugs, coalition combats demonization of users, calls for easier access to detox

‘When you start feeling accepted as you are, I don't think it can be overstated the impact that can have on someone's psychology,’ says the co-ordinator with the Sea to Sky Community Action Team.

From the future of the overdose prevention site, to safer supply, to shíshálh Nation’s response – here’s just some of how the Coast is coping with the crisis.

This is a letter from Brenda Doherty to her daughter Steffanie Lawrence who died of toxic drug poisoning in 2018.

Every siren signals another possible overdose in Coquitlam as local firefighters, moms, health-care workers and advocates respond to B.C.'s toxic drug crisis.

'It’s not a matter of willpower; it’s a matter of life and death.'