Surrey

This type of substance abuse occurs when people take medications that are prescribed for someone else or take more than the recommended dosage. Early detection and intervention is important to prevent this from becoming a larger problem....

Heroin has emerged as a threat equal to or greater than cocaine in British Columbia, after posing less of a threat throughout much of the 1990s. This is an unfortunate and deadly trend that continued to accelerate over the next decade and a half....

In 2018, 210 people died from drug overdoses in Surrey; that’s one person every two days. Surrey is just one city in British Columbia that is dealing with a drug crisis. All across the province, drug addiction overdoses are increasing. In Canada, the economic cost of...