Jan 28, 2025 | Opioid crisis
Earlier in December, the Nēwo-Yōtina Friendship Centre in Regina announced receiving full clearance from Health Canada to operate its supervised consumption site. Receiving the exemption to operate as Regina’s only supervised consumption site permits the centre to...
Jan 2, 2025 | Opioid crisis
A recent article published in Psychology Today and authored by Dr. Mark S. Gold discusses the challenges, both acute and long-term, faced by individuals who have survived an overdose. In addition, the article discusses some addiction treatments that have been...
Dec 26, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News, Opioid crisis
A recent article published by CBC News examined the growing incidence of babies born with opioid addiction withdrawal symptoms in recent years. According to Dr. Laura Lyons, an addictions specialist and physician at the London Health Sciences Centre who also treats...
Aug 26, 2024 | Opioid crisis
As part of a drug bust operation carried out earlier in May, P.E.I. RCMP seized tablets identified as N-desethyl isotonitazene, a potent and dangerous synthetic opioid. “N-desethyl Isotonitazene is a synthetic opioid considered more than 20 times more toxic than...
Aug 19, 2024 | Opioid crisis
Vancouver-based safe supply advocates, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) is preparing for a second Charter challenge as part of its defence of its two co-founders, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum. In 2021, DULF and...
Jul 12, 2024 | Opioid crisis
In a press release published, researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have announced that they will develop an AI model that will help to predict opioid addiction in high-risk patients. Specifically, the project will be funded...
