B.C.’s former chief coroner Larry Campbell takes on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – again

Campbell has been assigned a six-month contract to ‘drive forward solutions’ in the community hard-hit by the overdose crisis ...
Vancouver Island Free Daily

Opium trail: how the unassuming poppy became the root of B.C.’s drug crisis

The narcotic first drew widespread attention in B.C. in the late 1990s, when a cheap yet potent strain known as China White ...
Vancouver Island Free Daily

B.C. Conservatives take aim at NDP drug policy in wake of Vancouver appointment

Skeena MLA Claire Rattée's latest criticism follows NDP pick of senator Larry Campbell for Downtown Eastside project ...

FIRST READING: B.C. premier admits that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake

As recently as last year, Eby was still dismissing critics who said decriminalization would only make everything worse ...
foxbaltimore

Will Trump’s new order on homelessness clean up American streets?

(TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an order intended to get homeless people off the streets and homeless addicts into drug treatment programs. The order, "Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s ...
American Enterprise Institute

RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right?

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...
The New York Times

It Was a Promising Addiction Treatment. Many Patients Never Got It.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...