A community drug alert first issued on Sept. 18 for Waterloo region has been extended after the Overdose Monitoring Alert and Response System reported 70 overdoses or drug poisonings in four days. The ...

A new synthetic opioid cychlorphine is spreading across the US, causing dozens of overdose deaths and evading standard urine screens.

Canada’s federal prisons are to provide inmates with paper straws, foil and drug-testing strips as part of a harm-reduction ...

More older adults are taking five or more medications, but potentially dangerous drug combinations appear to be declining.

Mark Beadle, who sold drugs to a Niagara man who later died of an overdose, stated he never intended to harm anyone, and ...