Opinion: Opioid crisis seen through the lens of adverse childhood experiences
Posted on January 4, 2018
Vancouver Sun: The opioid epidemic is the biggest public health crisis to hit B.C. in decades. Upwards of four people a day are dying of overdoses, usually due to fentanyl poisoning of the street drug supply.
To date the B.C. government has committed $322 million to address the crisis, including opening more supervised consumption sites, providing naloxone kits, urging people not to use alone, and trying to stop tainted drugs from coming into B.C. Read the whole article here