Fentanyl

A fire medic holds a box containing naloxone hydrochloride which is carried in all their department's emergency response vehicles, in Akron, Ohio

With rising overdoses, British Columbia expands experimental prescription initiative

Health & Medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed the progress made in parts of Canada to curb the number of deaths caused by drug overdoses.

Chemicals seized during Asia’s largest-ever drug bust in Myanmar. 

A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery

Global Politics
Bags of white powdery fentanyl on a table.

How the deadly drug fentanyl is making its way to the US

Health
an overdose naloxone kit in a woman's hands

In Vancouver, people who use drugs are supervising injections and reversing overdoses

Health & Medicine
Acting DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg speaks during a news conference on the dangers law enforcement and first responders face when encountering fentanyl at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., June 6, 2017.

Trump wants to stop the ‘flood of cheap and deadly’ fentanyl from China. The dark web will make that harder.

Health
Amy Wright used to shoot up in alleys like this in downtown Toronto. Now she's helping the city design its safe injection sites.

What’s one way to prevent opioid overdoses? Toronto plans three supervised injection sites.

Health

At supervised injection sites, users get clean needles and a booth where they can inject drugs while a nurse watches. The nurse can help with the injection if need be.