• Such clubs will save lives lost to overdoses through heroin tainted by fentanyl, "disrupt" profits for drug dealers from organized crime gangs, eliminate an avenue for money laundering and thereby make housing more affordable. (druglawreform.info)
  • The previous month, the Straight reported that Don Davies , the NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway and Opposition health critic, similarly said he wants an open debate about legalizing hard drugs in response to the fentanyl crisis. (straight.com)
  • Edginton begins his investigation in the west coast city of Vancouver, where possession of hard drugs, including heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl, has been legalized. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The number of overdose deaths has climbed because of cheap and increasingly available synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin or morphine, says Susan Sherman , a professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School and senior author of the study. (jhu.edu)
  • Natural News) The cities of Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, as well as the state of Oregon in the United States, are seeking to make it legal to carry small amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs for personal use. (naturalnews.com)
  • Cody Timothy Casey is wanted Canada-wide on a number of charges including for the production and trafficking of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, as well as firearm offences, according to the Vancouver Police Department. (castanet.net)
  • Vancouver firefighters Jason Lynch and Jay Jakubec try to revive an addict who has already had two doses of Narcan after overdosing on fentanyl in Vancouver's downtown eastside. (cbc.ca)
  • Fentanyl, an opioid 100 times more potent than heroin, has been a 'game changer' for drug overdose deaths in B.C., said Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe. (cbc.ca)
  • Of these samples, 88 per cent tested positive for fentanyl, and while the vast majority of opioid-using clients said they had bought "heroin," only 18 per cent of samples were found to contain actual heroin (diacetylmorphine). (andybhatti.com)
  • For Andy Bhatti, professional Drug and Alcohol Interventionist in Vancouver, this means addicts who believe they're taking heroin are actually becoming addicted to fentanyl, one of the deadliest drugs on the streets today. (andybhatti.com)
  • The majority stated most heroin available in NH was laced with fentanyl and acknowledged that variability across batches increased overdose risk. (bvsalud.org)
  • Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? (ungassondrugs.org)
  • Hundreds visit the facility daily, some more than once, to safely inject illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and morphine at one of 13 booths. (jhu.edu)
  • Natural News) Oregon has become the first state in America to decriminalize the personal possession of all drugs, including hard drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and heroin. (naturalnews.com)
  • In 2006, the mayor of Vancouver called for the implementation of an experimental program to combat addiction to cocaine and crystal meth. (sobriety.ca)
  • Today, the CBSA announced the interception of a significant amount of suspected cocaine and heroin. (globjob.net)
  • Over 50 kilograms of suspected cocaine and one kilogram of suspected heroin were seized. (globjob.net)
  • Methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine from a safe supply being handed out to drug users by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Drug User Liberation Front and Moms Stop the Harm to mark International Overdose Awareness Day, are displayed in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. (interior-news.com)
  • Reuters) - Methamphetamine trafficking in and around Afghanistan has surged in recent years, even as the Taliban has curbed heroin trafficking since taking power, a United Nations report said on Sunday. (yahoo.com)
  • As a former heroin and methamphetamine user who lived in the neighbourhood for three years before getting clean and returning "to do something positive," he's one of many peer support volunteers and workers playing a vital role in stemming the overdose crisis that has devastated the province. (peacearchnews.com)
  • The heroin problem in the US is compounded by the huge increase in the use of prescription opioids to treat chronic pain. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • There is not one universal opioid overdose crisis in the U.S. There is significant geographic variation in deaths from prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • The synthetic+ class (6.9%) has high and fast-growing fatal overdose rates from synthetic opioids alone and synthetic opioids in combination with prescription opioids and to a lesser extent, heroin. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Counties in the other multi-opioid class (4.2%) are in the depths of the opioid crisis, having very high and rapidly-growing fatal overdose rates from all types of opioids: heroin, prescription, synthetic, and combinations of the three. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Epidemiologic estimates suggest that there may be as many as 100 000 injection drug users in Canada, most of whom use of illicit opioids in some form. (cmaj.ca)
  • Parallel initiatives are under way in B.C. to provide users of illicit opioids such as heroin with safer alternatives. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • heroin addicts roaming the streets like zombies. (thehundreds.com)
  • It protected society from the criminal activity of drug addicts and at the same time provided heroin addicts treatment. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • Fresh on the success of NAOMI , the North American Opiate Maintenance Initiative, in which hardcore heroin addicts in Vancouver were given either methadone, heroin, or Dilaudid in maintenance doses, Canadian researchers announced earlier this year plans to broaden and deeper their research with SALOME , the Study to Assess Long-term Opiate Maintenance Effectiveness. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • NAOMI researchers estimate that Canada has between 60,000 and 90,000 heroin addicts. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • The NAOMI trials found that addicts on maintenance heroin used less illicit heroin, committed fewer crimes, and adapted healthier lifestyles. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Experimentation for a similar program in which heroin addicts receive small, daily doses of heroin is already underway. (sobriety.ca)
  • died of an accidental heroin overdoses. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., wants to create a place where people can use heroin or other drugs injected drugs under supervision, in an effort to combat soaring deaths from overdoses. (kpcw.org)
  • Canada is dying not just from drug overdoses but from a legally sanctioned medical industry of death. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Too few physicians bothered to get the exemptions, and although the sales of buprenorphine soared to in excess of $2 billion per year, we have not seen a drop in reduction of heroin use or overdoses. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • In this study, we examined the occurrence of and the factors associated with nonfatal overdoses within a Canadian sample of illicit opioid users not enrolled in treatment at the time of study recruitment. (cmaj.ca)
  • Fifty-one people died of illicit drug overdoses in Vancouver alone in December. (cbc.ca)
  • Located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood-an area of the Canadian city notorious for its drug trade, poverty, and crime-Insite is North America's first supervised drug-injection center. (jhu.edu)
  • Researchers believe the Vancouver facility lowered overdose deaths by around 35 percent in its neighborhood and nearly 10 percent citywide. (kpcw.org)
  • The unprecedented quantity of heroin being produced by Afghanistan, Burma and Mexico is causing a sharp increase in heroin addiction and deaths in bordering countries including the US. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • According to Vancouver Coastal Health, the region's health authority, Insite staff have to date performed more than 6,400 overdose interventions, with no deaths at the site. (jhu.edu)
  • 12 , 13 Recent estimates have suggested 500 to 1000 overdose deaths per year in Canada during the past decade. (cmaj.ca)
  • A flashpoint for the opioid crisis, Vancouver has one of the highest rates of drug-overdose deaths in North America. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Jerry Martin had a radical plan to reduce overdose deaths in Vancouver, Canada, taking the drug laws into his own hands. (theface.com)
  • Prescription opioid misuse increase in overdose deaths in the workplace (from all may also lead to heroin use (Cicero et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Cory Monteith, the 31-year-old heartthrob of Fox Television 's musical-comedy series Glee , apparently died of an accidental overdose of heroin and alcohol, said the Canadian authorities on Tuesday. (com.pk)
  • The British Columbia Coroners Service said in a press release that post-mortem testing on the star shows that he died of "mixed-drug toxicity involving heroin and alcohol. (com.pk)
  • Coroners said post-mortem tests, including an autopsy and toxicological analysis, found the 31-year-old died of "mixed drug toxicity", including primarily heroin but also alcohol. (vicnews.com)
  • Health Canada granted the province of B.C. an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which will be in effect from January 31, 2023, to January 31, 2026. (overtheedgepaper.ca)
  • SALOME, which stands for the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness, found hydromorphone (HDM) to be as effective as diacetylmorphine (pharmaceutical-grade prescription heroin) for people who have not benefited from previous treatments, such as methadone or suboxone. (ubc.ca)
  • While methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone are effective heroin addiction treatments for many people and should remain the first line responses, no single treatment is effective for all individuals. (ubc.ca)
  • Marc Lewis in his very thoughtful post on visiting a harm reduction facility in Belgium observed: "Methadone provides a solution to heroin epidemic, but not a great solution. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • NAOMI showed that heroin maintenance worked for people for whom methadone and other forms of treatment had not, she said. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • The Vancouver trial, known as the NAOMI project (North American Opiate Medications Initiative), will compare the risks and benefits of heroin with those of the synthetic opiate methadone. (drgabormate.com)
  • The results of the ground-breaking SALOME research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry , show chronic heroin addiction now has another effective treatment tool - hydromorphone, a licensed pain medication. (ubc.ca)
  • The decision will have "disastrous consequences for people addicted to heroin and (who) don't respond to standard treatment," said Dr. Suzanne Brissette, chief of addiction medicine at Saint-Luc hospital. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • They estimate that addiction costs the Canadian government about $6 billion dollars a year, and they argue that it's time for the government to recognize addiction as a chronic disease and treat it as such. (sobriety.ca)
  • Its drug and alcohol addiction rate is just under 11%-below the national average but higher than the addiction rates of other major Canadian cities, including Toronto and Montreal. (sobriety.ca)
  • Keith Ahamad, medical director for the regional addiction program at Vancouver Coastal Health, highlighted the need for massive amounts of funding to create a robust addiction treatment system that people can be linked to. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Lake also discussed the need to explore new treatment options for people with addiction, including the possibility of prescription heroin . (cbc.ca)
  • Instead of love and treatment being the response to heroin addiction, Safehouse will provide all the needles you can shoot - and validation. (broadandliberty.com)
  • You'll reap this whirlwind in time, well before the saner parts of the country, where encouragement of heroin addiction isn't as popular. (broadandliberty.com)
  • There, they can inject heroin. (jhu.edu)
  • Today, the Safehouse gang of protesters, with the support of leading Democrats like former Gov. Ed Rendell, takes to the streets to demand better access to needles and places for the masses to inject heroin. (broadandliberty.com)
  • is one of Canada's largest faith-based health care organizations, operating 17 health care facilities in Greater Vancouver. (ubc.ca)
  • The Canadian province of British Columbia is Canada's westernmost province. (sobriety.ca)
  • Vancouver is British Columbia's largest city and one of Canada's major metropolitan centers. (sobriety.ca)
  • With the help of Vancouver Foundation, Canada's largest community foundation, the BCCSU has been able to conduct research into drug checking. (andybhatti.com)
  • The official U.S. response to the free heroin trial about to begin in Vancouver is predictably negative. (drgabormate.com)
  • Prior to having to appear for trial in 2022, investigators believe Casey left Canada,' says Inspector Phil Heard in a press release. (castanet.net)
  • On June 3, 2022, a truck driver arrived at the Aldergrove Commercial Operations in Langley, British Columbia, seeking entry into Canada. (globjob.net)
  • A total of 202 participants in Vancouver were randomized in a six-month double blind study to receive either injectable hydromorphone or injectable diacetylmorphine (DAM). (ubc.ca)
  • As diacetylmorphine is not presently available in many countries for political and/or regulatory reasons, hydromorphone has a significant advantage as a legal, licensed pain medication," said Dr. Patricia Daly, Vancouver Coastal Health's chief medical health officer, and clinical faculty member in the School of Population and Public Health. (ubc.ca)
  • It is the follow-up study to the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) , North America's first-ever clinical trial of diacetylmorphine/prescription heroin as an opioid agonist treatment medication. (ubc.ca)
  • The City of Vancouver supports the local demands of the Life Won't Wait National Day of Action to end the overdose epidemic, including programs to provide injectable opioid treatments. (straight.com)
  • Having witnessed the drug epidemic and its antisocial fallout firsthand, Edginton asks Gunn who is to blame for the chaos in Vancouver. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Response to the heroin epidemic: 2. (memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com)
  • Why did a man open a shop selling coke, MDMA and heroin? (theface.com)
  • A toxic combination of heroin and alcohol killed Canadian actor Cory Monteith, according to the B.C. Coroners Service. (vicnews.com)
  • Unfortunately, a mixture of heroin and alcohol can be fatal, and this was another tragic overdose," said Montague. (vicnews.com)
  • Este es un estudio transversal, cuanti-cualitative, con usuarios de un Centro de Atención Psicosocial para el Alcohol y Otras Drogas (CAPSad) en Brasil. (bvsalud.org)
  • Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • Every part of the province is affected, but Vancouver continues to be the epicentre of the crisis, said Lapointe. (cbc.ca)
  • Quebec's refusal to pay its share -- the Canadian Institutes of Health Research are kicking in $1 million for the three-year project -- led Montreal's SALOME head researcher to charge the government with discrimination. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018. (druglawreform.info)
  • It would be hard to find a more apt setting for a drug policy conference in 2018 than Vancouver, Canada. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The Glee star was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in downtown Vancouver Saturday morning. (vicnews.com)
  • He was a Canadian actor and musician, best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee. (celebritiesmeasurements.com)
  • The book is a photographic journey in the hotel rooms of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. (thespiderawards.com)
  • Federal politicians have similarly called for a national debate on the legalization of heroin. (straight.com)
  • There was nothing else like it elsewhere in Canada or North America," Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health , says of her arrival in the city 15 years ago. (macleans.ca)
  • People in the area are living more than 10 years longer than they did just two decades ago, according to a draft study on health inequities provided to Maclean's by Vancouver Coastal Health. (macleans.ca)
  • The AP (7/29, Lovering) reports, "A team of anti-drug investigators, lawyers and judges will start prosecuting major narcotics cases in Afghanistan - the world's largest opium and heroin producer - as part of a new UN program launched Thursday. (dpna.org)
  • Tyndall is somewhat notorious in Vancouver for having publicly proposed setting up a vending machine that would supply people with cheap doses of hydromorphone. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The Vancouver Police Department says their investigation into Monteith's death is now closed, and the case lies with the coroners service. (vicnews.com)
  • He was also in a relationship with co-star Lea Michele (who has since asked for privacy following Monteith's death) and he was a noted huge Vancouver Canucks fan , often appearing as their games in Rogers Arena or in Los Angeles (with Michele in tow, and also in Canucks garb). (vicnews.com)
  • Fans and other celebrities have expressed their condolences and their sadness over Twitter and other online forums, and candlelight vigils and memorials are being held across Canada to celebrate Monteith's life. (vicnews.com)
  • He was a president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) who is also credited as a cofounder of North America's first supervised-injection facility, Insite. (straight.com)
  • On Sept. 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Vancouver's Insite, North America's first legally authorized safer injection site. (druglawreform.info)
  • He called the so-called war on drugs a failure and said Canada needs to begin talking about legalizing hard drugs, including heroin. (straight.com)
  • It was organized by the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs (CAPUD). (straight.com)
  • The idea is that people addicted to heroin or other injection drugs would show up at the facility. (kpcw.org)
  • Program Cooridnator with Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs. (theconversation.com)
  • Matthew Bonn is the Program Coordinator with Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs (CAPUD). (theconversation.com)
  • As police enforce health protection acts in cities all over Canada , we haven't heard specifically what they plan to do about possession of controlled substances charges for people who have to buy their drugs on the street in the midst of COVID-19. (theconversation.com)
  • There's no law in Canada where we can request charges against someone who's provided drugs to an individual. (vicnews.com)
  • Natural News) A new report from the City of Toronto in Canada claims that, because criminalization of unregulated drugs "does not effectively deter youth substance use," all of them should be decriminalized for any age. (naturalnews.com)
  • The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is committed to keeping Canadian communities safe from illicit drugs. (globjob.net)
  • In certain circumstances, such as on school and daycare premises, at airports, and on Canadian Coast Guard vessels and helicopters, adults found in possession of any amount of illegal drugs can still be charged with a criminal offense. (overtheedgepaper.ca)
  • Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are also subject to a criminal offense if they possess these drugs unless otherwise authorized. (overtheedgepaper.ca)
  • People who inject drugs (PWID) account for a large proportion of the incarcerated population in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia ( 4 - 7 ), and injection drug use is prevalent during incarceration ( 8 , 9 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The national day of action saw people march in seven cities across Canada. (straight.com)
  • Member of the Halifax Area Network of Drug Using People (HANDUP), Lead peer with Peers Assisting and Lending Support (PALS), co-founder of the HaliFIX Overdose Prevention Site & National Board member with the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). (theconversation.com)
  • He added, "Every day in Vancouver four people are randomly attacked. (lifesitenews.com)
  • However, we believe there are people in Metro Vancouver who have knowledge of his current whereabouts. (castanet.net)
  • Casey is listed as one of the 25 most wanted people in Canada on Bolo's website , and is one of only three wanted people with rewards at or above $100,000 on the site. (castanet.net)
  • Vancouver has a population of nearly 600,000, but the major metropolitan area is home to over 2 million people. (sobriety.ca)
  • The area attracts people struggling with drug use and mental health issues from across Canada. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • On any given night in Canada, 35,000 people find themselves homeless. (cpha.ca)
  • Vancouver Police Department Constable Brian Montague said the VPD will only act when requested by the City, as police do not have authority to shut down businesses, even as cannabis dispensaries remain illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada . (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Brian Montague said it doesn't matter how strict dispensaries are, under federal law it's illegal to sell cannabis to anyone, even those who have Health Canada approval for medical cannabis . (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Study participants on both medications reported far fewer days of street-heroin and other opioid use at six months (three to five days per month), compared to almost daily illicit opioid use prior to being enrolled in the study. (ubc.ca)
  • SALOME was supposed to begin this fall in Vancouver and Montreal, but Quebec provincial authorities have thrown a wrench in the works. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • On February 8, the Straight reported that Dr. Hedy Fry , the Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, said it's time Canada begin that discussion. (straight.com)
  • MacPherson worked for the City of Vancouver as its drug-policy coordinator from 2000 to 2009. (straight.com)
  • Gunn says he documents the "general societal chaos and explosion of drug use in every major Canadian city. (lifesitenews.com)
  • They died almost 6½ years before residents of suburban Richmond just a few kilometres to the south, which has the longest life expectancy of any city in Canada. (macleans.ca)
  • Men in inner-city Vancouver died almost 11 years before those in the rest of B.C. (macleans.ca)
  • The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is located in the southwest corner of the mainland. (sobriety.ca)
  • The City of Vancouver said it will continue to update the number of cannabis dispensaries that have closed or been ticketed every week as officials move forward to enforce shutdown orders on the vast majority of the city's medical storefronts. (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Vancouver communications staff Tobin Postma also said, in an email, that the city has confirmed that 22 dispensaries have also closed their doors in compliance with city requests. (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Vancouver city officials said that's going to change with the ongoing dispensary regulations headed by Councillor Kerry Jang. (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Vancouver is also a stunningly beautiful, well-run and very wealthy-feeling city. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Karen Ward, an artist and drug user contracted to advise the City of Vancouver on drug policy, said it was "remarkable" to see the provincial health officer take such a strong stand on the issue. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Vancouver reported the largest homeless population in city history in 2014. (cpha.ca)
  • High heroin counties (5.4%) and emerging heroin counties (14.5%) are geographically distinct from the prescription opioid counties and are concentrated in parts of New York, the Industrial Midwest, central North Carolina, and portions of the southwest and northwest. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Regardless of what someone shows them, regardless if they have a licence from Health Canada, regardless if they have a prescription from a doctor, it does not matter. (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • And Canada must withstand more U.S. displeasure if the results of the Vancouver experiment point to our introducing heroin by prescription as part of our addictions treatment armamentarium. (drgabormate.com)
  • I would bet any amount of money the U.S. has exerted extreme pressure on Canada to abort this trial," Alex Wodak, a prominent Australian addictions researcher, has said. (drgabormate.com)
  • It is to Ottawa's credit that Canada has resisted similar pressure from the Bush administration, whose addictions policies owe more to narrow moralism than to science, compassion or insight. (drgabormate.com)
  • And speaking of support, Justin from Capsule stocks The Hundreds on the other side of Canada in Toronto. (thehundreds.com)
  • Alongside repressive COVID measures and draconian laws limiting free speech, Edginton records how, under the Liberal prime minister, "Canada has sought to position itself as the global bastion of progressive politics. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Of the 1400 subjects recruited between 1996 and 2000 into the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study, 124 participants died, 41 (33.1%) because of an overdose. (cmaj.ca)
  • CTV News found Vancouver cannabis dispensaries are inconsistent when it comes to how patients access product. (cannabislifenetwork.com)
  • Other countries have used safe injection sites for decades in an effort to reduce the death toll from heroin. (kpcw.org)
  • A recent study in Vancouver tested drug samples from two supervised injection sites over a period of six months. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Advocates of Safehouse scold us that supervised injection sites exist in Europe and Canada. (broadandliberty.com)
  • The drug-checking machine is currently available at two authorized injection sites in Vancouver. (andybhatti.com)