As Canada grapples with a severe national drug crisis, experts say the country’s prisons are overwhelmed.

Drinkers might delight in Ontario’s booze bonanza, but Scotland’s strategy is saving lives.

On the streets of Victoria, addicts and those who care about them have mixed feelings about the return of criminalization, and they have a warning for Toronto.

Podcast by Raju Mudhar. The opioid crisis has claimed many lives. Some believe that some of those deaths were targeted killings.

With overdose deaths more than quadrupling from 2016 to 2021, police in Niagara are taking new steps to scrutinize fatal overdoses.

Christopher Schwede was a crack cocaine user and dealer who worked to keep drug supplies clean. Friends say his death may have been a ‘hot shot’ and is worthy of further investigation.

The trauma of women and children who have been attacked, tortured and raped by Russian soldiers is leaving victims in a dark place. Many have nowhere to turn for help.

Many who have experienced violence from Russian attacks, lost a parent or have no home to return to are in deep distress

Beyond dealing with the physical horrors, panic attacks, insomnia, flashbacks, anxiety and depression affect majority of patients

Why prospective parents are turning to social media for sperm donations. “I was in such a place of desperation, thinking, ‘Just give me the baby, and I will figure everything else out later.’”

Half of Canadian women feel unprepared and three quarters who sought medical advice found it lacking

Once an addict herself, Millie Modeste says this is “what I was meant to do” as deaths from toxic drugs take more lives in B.C. than all other unnatural causes.

Charles Cook has survived a stroke, a heart transplant, a kidney transplant and months in Toronto General Hospital. The 53-year-old knows he’s one of the lucky ones. But he worries that while waiting for his next new kidney, his luck will run out.

The tent-like dome shaped from willow boughs and covered with blankets and tarps on the Cowichan reservation on Vancouver Island does not look much like a place of healing. But a place of healing is what it is.

Lisa Hepner still remembers the shock of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a 21-year-old student. She thought she was just tired from too much partying. But her pancreas had stopped making the insulin needed to break down sugar, doctors said. It could shorten her life and cause a raft of complications: blindness, stroke, kidney disease and even amputation.

Menopause symptoms interfere with most women’s lives, according to a U.S. survey. And these challenges emerge between ages 45 and 55, just as women are likely to move into leadership positions.

My negative views about anti-vaxxers were put to the test this fall when one of my closest friends moved her family from Simcoe, Ont., to Florida to escape Canada’s widening array of vaccine mandates.

Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Yusra Ahmad’s infectious laugh belies the stress she is feeling. The single mother and survivor of domestic violence worries about her 12-year-old daughter learning virtually.

Conlin McCabe placed fourth in men’s pairs at the Tokyo Olympic Games — capping an Olympic rowing career that saw him win two medals over three games. But upon his retirement from the sport, the 31-year-old Brockville native faced an uncertain future.

Katie Dudtschak was not comfortable being a boy from the time she was five years old. She remembers spending hours rummaging through her mother’s jewelry box and clothes drawers, putting on her sister’s bra and panties and wearing them under her clothes to play outside — preferring skipping with the girls to soccer with the boys.