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Vancouver’s opioid crisis can be measured in discarded needles

B.C.’s illicit-drug users are going through 15 million needles a year, and a lot wind up in alleys, parks and playgrounds. We followed the guy who picks them up.

Fentanyl’s deadly toll rises in B.C.

After our June story on the killer drug taking over Canadian streets, fentanyl is back in the news with a new spate of tragic deaths