Drug Crisis

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) officials tried to renew an exemption to continue operating a safe consumption site (SCS) in downtown, but the province never approved it. Instead, the site at 179 Clarence...

Brockville Police and the South East Health Unit (SEHU) are alerting the community to an increase in overdoses in the community. A spokesperson for SEHU told CityNews on average, there are one to two...

A package of suspected opium arriving from India has been seized in Ottawa, officials said in a press release. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said they...

Last year, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) responded to over 1,400 calls regarding overdoses, equating to almost four calls per day. Overdose deaths remain high across the province; just last year,...

VANCOUVER — The presence of second-hand fentanyl smoke is so severe at some British Columbia supportive housing facilities that workers cannot escape "substantial exposure," even if they stay in their...

More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows. "What goes through my head is a small degree...

The government intends to mandate treatment for people with addictions in jail, on probation and on parole, and officials will now look into how this can be done, how much it would cost, what sort of help...

The Ontario judge overseeing the legal challenge of the province's ban on supervised consumption sites that are within 200 metres of schools and daycares says he's concerned he does not have all the facts...

Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. The Conservative leader...