Doctor Peter Butt, an addictions specialist and associate professor in the department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, at his office in Saskatoon, SK on Friday, July 7, 2017. Liam Richards / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Once seemingly limited to the streets of Vancouver, where scenes of...
Dr. Peter Butt demonstrates how to use a Naloxone kit. Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Worries about accidental poisoning from victims of fentanyl overdoses are largely based in myth, say those who work in the area.Suggestions that people administering First Aid can be poisoned simply by touching...
Part of the Esso Strathcona Refinery in Edmonton at sunset. Resentment runs deepRe: All the reasons feds can’t say no to trans mountain; With huge political opposition to Bill C-69, Liberals have no choice but re-approval, Opinion, June 14It is in Don Braid’s interest to...
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, June 24, and there’s a new leading cause of opioid overdose deaths in San Francisco, the homelessness crisis is playing out nightly at one BART station, and the future of PG&E’s land holdings is uncertain. Here’s what you need...
These two efforts stopped most OxyContin prescribing and decimated legitimate disabled intractable pain sufferers in West Virginia, the state with the highest incidence of industrial and worker compensation injury cases. For the sake of argument, let’s estimate pain clinic patients were 50% legitimate pain sufferers...
As noted in a recent Chicago Tribune editorial, the term “deaths of despair”...
In 2017, more than 47,000 Americans lost their lives to opioids. While China...
Walla Walla County Superior CourtCRIMINAL CASESNEW CHARGESKenneth C. Martinez, 38, no known address,...
