Pop-up art gallery nurtured grief and destroyed stigma surrounding opioid crisis January 9, 2018 Megan Warren An awning covered with images of camas, lavender, and Garry oak still hangs over the front door of 821 Fort St., remembering the heARTspace pop-up gallery that lived there from...
Lil Peep and fentanyl December 8, 2017December 8, 2017 Eden Da Silva What UVic students should know | Earlier in November, 21-year-old Gustav Åhr, also known by his stage name Lil Peep, was finishing up his 20-show Come Over When You’re Sober tour....
Drug safety and students September 21, 2017January 13, 2018 Sarah Lazin and Kaitlyn Kokoska It has been 17 months since B.C.’s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency regarding the prevalence of fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths. In that time, B.C. has seen hundreds...
The opioid gamble: How fentanyl became B.C.’s leading health crisis January 26, 2017January 31, 2017 Anna James It’s up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and contributed to 60 per cent of illicit drug deaths in B.C. last year. But why is fentanyl really dangerous? In the...
Safe injection sites are necessary for saving lives December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 Cazzy Lewchuk This article originally appeared in The Other Press, Douglas College's student newspaper, on Dec. 7. NEW WESTMINSTER—Vancouver is home to the first legal supervised injection site in North America. At Insite,...