British Columbia’s health officer is blaming a street version of the powerful painkiller fentanyl for at least 23 deaths in the province this year. And he’s advising health workers to be on the lookout for more overdoses.
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Canadians are among the top sellers and buyers of marijuana, steroids, cocaine and other drugs available at the click of a mouse on an anonymous website that functions like a black market version of eBay, a study has found.
Teenagers are trading sex for drugs and alcohol at a low but steady rate, yet the vast majority of them attend school and live at home with their parents, a new University of British Columbia study suggests.
