Heroin

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.

an overdose naloxone kit in a woman's hands

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

Health & Medicine
A used container of the drug Narcan, which is used against opioid overdoses, lies on the ground in a park in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 26, 2017.

US life expectancy fell in 2016 for second year in a row

Health
Master Grower Ryan Douglas waters marijuana plants in a growing room at Tweed Marijuana Inc. in Smith's Falls, Ontario.

Is marijuana a secret weapon against the opioid epidemic?

Health
Heroin

The story of heroin shows how medicine advances ‘slowly and painfully’

Lifestyle
The World

US governors discuss the opioid crisis

Culture

Opioid overdoses claim the lives of 91 Americans every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

Police

The number of daily opioid overdoses in South Florida is overwhelming police

Lifestyle

The man’s roommates found him unconscious and he was turning blue, not breathing. He was overdosing on heroin.

The World

How this filmmaker went from dealing heroin to working on ‘T2 Trainspotting’

Arts

When the first “Trainspotting” movie came out in 1996, Garry Fraser was a young drug addict in Edinburgh. When the sequel came out this year, he was in the credits.

Pills

In 2015 alone, 33,000 Americans died of an opioid-related overdose. What’s fueling the epidemic?

Health

Prescribed drugs — as well as illicit ones, are feeding the opioid epidemic, according to two experts.