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Seattle plans to open safe spaces for addicts to use heroin — and that’s smart

09.16.16

By Keegan Hamilton
Drugs

Fentanyl-Laced Coke May Have Caused Nine Overdoses in 20 Minutes in BC Last Night

09.01.16

By Sarah Berman
Drugs

Most of Vancouver’s Heroin Supply Tainted with Fentanyl, Study Says

08.31.16

By Rachel Browne
Pulse

America’s new deadliest drug is fentanyl

08.30.16

By Keegan Hamilton
Pulse

Canada just seized 50 million doses of the elephant tranquilizer that’s killing people

08.09.16

By Rachel Browne
Pulse

In photos: the vigilante Vancouver first-responsers tackling the fentanyl crisis

07.25.16

By Sarah Berman, Photos by Jackie Dives
Drugs

Thirty-Six People Overdosed Within 48 Hours in Surrey, BC

07.19.16

By Allison Tierney
Health

Canadian Music Festivals Still Can’t Test Pills for Fentanyl

07.17.16

By Sarah Berman
Pulse

A ‘bad batch’ of synthetic weed turned part of Brooklyn into ‘Zombieland’

07.13.16

By Tess Owen
Health

At Least 17 People Reportedly Overdosed on Spice in Brooklyn

07.12.16

By VICE Staff
Pulse

Canada’s Ban on Ultra-Potent Drug W-18 Could Make Things Worse

06.01.16

By Rachel Browne
Pulse

Family Doctor in Toronto Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl

04.06.16

By Rachel Browne

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