Opioid Crisis

On a National Day of Action, harm reduction advocates tell us what’s needed to put the overdose crisis on federal leaders’ agendas.

Authorities have spoken out about the threat of fentanyl in recreational drugs, but there's reason to believe their claims are overblown.

Doug Ford’s government announced on Friday it was scaling back funding for overdose prevention services as opioid deaths continue to skyrocket.

As opioids have been under the spotlight for years, new programs dedicated to the drug are popping up in Toronto in response to rising rates of meth use.

A new report cites medication buyers clubs that emerged during the HIV/AIDS crisis as a model for its proposed heroin buyers clubs.

New findings about the pressure to sell OxyContin reveal a lot about the opioid crisis.

In opioid-ravaged Ohio, Bunk Police helped Insane Clown Posse fans test their drugs.

Something worse than fentanyl is making its way east, Terry Lake says.

Public health experts aren’t sure why the gender split on Canadian opioid-related deaths grew even wider in 2017.

At least six people dead in Miami bridge collapse, Trump's new opioid plan said to include death penalty for dealers, White House denies H.R. McMaster is getting fired, and more.

VICE Canada’s Head of Content explains why we teamed up with CTV’s W5 for our new documentary, ‘Steel Town Down: Overdose Crisis in the Soo.’

In a statement to VICE, Karl Buhr says he takes responsibility for telling the fake story and hopes it doesn’t take away attention from a very real health crisis.