Kanada / British Columbia. New drug mix causing harder-to-revive overdoses, sparking panic in Vancouver - Etizolam is described as having 10 times the potency of Valium 'The morgues are full and they've had to rent cooling trucks to store bodies' (…

Kanada. National report: Apparent opioid-related deaths in Canada (January 2016 to September 2018). Web Based Report.  Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses.  Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada; April 2019.&n…

Kanada. In Vancouver, front-line workers are facing ‘a different kind of overdose’ in new synthetic drug A drug chemically similar to medication for anxiety and sleep disorders that is being cut into heroin and fentanyl is suspected of contributing…

Non drug-related and opioid-specific causes of 3262 deaths in Scotland's methadone-prescription clients, 2009-2015. Gao L, Robertson JR, Bird SM. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Apr 1;197:262-270. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.01.019.  https://ww…

A retrospective cohort study of mortality rates in patients with an opioid use disorder treated with implant naltrexone, oral methadone or sublingual buprenorphine. Kelty E, Joyce D, Hulse G. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2019 Mar 8:1-7. doi: 10.1080/0…

Kanada. 43 overdoses in a single night in Vancouver: firefighters A local official posted a startling statistic on Monday about the overdose crisis in Vancouver. There were 43 overdoses in a single night in the city, Deputy Fire Chief Tyler Moore…