In May, Alberta passed the "Compassionate Care Act", a new law giving police, family members, and doctors the right to request treatment for addicts if they pose harm to themselves or others. And that ...

A 25-year-old British woman, who started taking the party drug ketamine as a 'way to cope' when she lost her baby at 38 weeks ...

Substance abuse has spiralled beyond containment across Ontario. Emergency rooms flood with overdose cases. Families watch loved ones disappear into addiction. The statistics paint a grim reality.

While British Columbia has done an admirable job keeping COVID-19 from overwhelming the province, its struggle with another crisis continues. More people died from opioids in just the month of May ...

It's not unusual for any journalist who pushes stories and topics with a degree of zeal to apologize from time to time for mistakes that get on the air. But I need to say I'm sorry to two brothers ...

UNION, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / June 16, 2017 / If you've never tried yoga, you might think of it as something that involves contorting one's body into complicated or boring poses. Or, maybe you imagine that ...

The number of people who believe that those who are dependent on drugs only have themselves to blame has fallen by almost half in the past 25 years, dropping from 57% to 30%. Research published by ...

So while Smith’s simplistic solution might seem obvious, it’s not. Like others who seek to politicize this crisis, he leaves ...

When Jacob Philp arrived at Bill’s Place in Vernon in February 2017, he was in a bad place. “I was hopeless and I was broken,” Philp told Global News. The 33-year old man was heavily addicted to drugs ...