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TORONTO - Canada’s most populous province of Ontario on Monday announced plans to sue opioid makers to recover health care costs related to the deadly addiction epidemic.Ontario’s attorney general, Caroline Mulroney, said the province will join a lawsuit launched last year by British Columbia against...
HEARTBREAKING footage shows the moment a little boy desperately tries to wake up his “drugged-up” mum after she appeared to pass out on the bus. The young boy could be heard crying out: “Mum that's our stop, that's our stop.” A young boy was filmed trying...
The leading opioid present in the bodies of overdose victims in Thunder Bay is methadone. DAVID_JACKSON The lineups start before 8 in the morning outside the drug stores of Thunder Bay – recovering opioid users form queues to obtain their...
As pharmaceutical companies prepare to square off with states and local communities in courts around the U.S., a growing number of state and local officials say the industry should pay to cover the cost of the nation's deadly opioid epidemic."I think they are as complicit...
Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (Free Press file photo) An inquest has been called into the death of a man who died at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) in 2017.The inquest will examine the death of Michael Fall on July 30, 2017, the regional coroner’s office announced Monday.Details about...
OPSEU Local 128 president Joel Bissonnette stands outside the Sarnia jail where three inmates and two corrections officers were exposed to fentanyl last week, sending all to hospital. Now he and others are calling for the province to better equip jails with the security needed...
Anthony Worthington, 40, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Friday after his one-year-old daughter Reagan died from eating his drugs (Picture: Fox 6/ Obituary)A 13-month-old girl died after she ate her father’s heroin and methamphetamine. Anthony Worthington, 40, admitted in court Friday that his daughter, Reagan, died...