Van Mag War on War on Drugs Nov 2012

Indications of a staggering level of prescription drug abuse by Aboriginal youths have left experts urging a more coordinated approach to the problem: Responses to Health Canada’s national Youth Smoking Survey …

Fred Coulter traces his decision to sue the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma (Canada) back to 1994, when a heavy roller in the London, Ontario printing plant where he worked fell …

Vastly improved monitoring of addictive painkillers is needed to handle the scourge of inappropriate opioid prescribing, dispensing and use in Canada, experts say. But dithering and empire building by federal …

“Ottawa’s new approach is to criminalize what should still be seen as a health issue,” says Cathy McIsaac, executive director of Direction 180, a methadone clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. …

How the Government of Canada pitted scientists from Simon Fraser University against colleagues at the University of British Columbia in its campaign to shut INSITE, Vancouver’s safe injection site.