10+ hour, 58+ min ago   (46+ words) Yahoo News Canada A fentanyl awareness walk was held in Winnipeg to honour the lives of those lost to the synthetic opiod, while a new community services office was opened to help people struggling with addictions....

10+ hour, 58+ min ago   (636+ words) With loved ones on their minds, about 100 people gathered at The Forks on Sunday afternoon for the 3rd annual Fentanyl Awareness walk to raise awareness about the lethal synthetic opiod and other toxic substances, and to call for change. For Hanna-Marie…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (730+ words) At an event marking B.C.'s toxic drug crisis, families shared stories of trying to find help only to be told none was available. Jacquie Gull said she spent two full days trying to find a treatment centre to help her…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (61+ words) Yahoo News Canada The numbers are shocking - more than 18,000 people in B.C. have died of overdoses in the past decade. And while progress has been made, advocates say much more needs to be done. And as Angela Jung reports, innovations developed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (134+ words) Aug. 31 marks the 25th International Overdose Awareness Day. The annual global campaign aims to end drug overdoses and remember those who have died. A public gathering will be held in Cambridge's Soper Park on Monday morning. Julie Kalbfleisch, director of public…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1076+ words) Patricia (Patty) Kennedy will be remembering her brother on International Overdose Awareness Day on Monday. Kennedy, who lives in Edmonton, is a social worker from Carry the Kettle Nakota Nation, east of Regina. Her brother Robert died last year from…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (492+ words) The hard numbers and description of the current reality of youth mental health could not have been better described. I commend writer Michael McBean for getting input from professors and research chairs in youth mental health and violence prevention, and…...