Toxi-City: Opioid crisis leaves a trail of heartbreak for Edmonton families

This is part one of a three-part series from reporter Anna Junker exploring the toxic drugs crisis in Edmonton.
Postmedia journalists David Bloom, Greg Southam and Anna Junker look at how overdoses are killing people in record numbers, and the effect these losses have on families.

[@Lanearndt]

So much tragedy and heartbreak! There's no loss bigger than this and no parent should ever have to survive the loss of their child!!

[@justbe1451]

My heart breaks for families who lose loved ones to drugs, the stigma they face from society is crushing. ❤

[@aquious953]

Addiction is an environmental adaptation.

[@jannetteanderson5068]

No one knows the pain unless this is happening or has happened to you. Society needs to open their eyes & STOP being so damn judgmental

[@mariawong6965]

How your life is once you reach adulthood is a personal choice, and be responsible for it!

[@patrickflynn7607]

my sister gone a junky and my brother gone junky

[@mrbill4206]

Yeah they were all bubbly ,kind sweet people who somehow had a suicidal death wish.

[@MrWallace484]

All these deaths could have been prevented, without needles no drugs can be given, who manufactures the needles ?

[@irabrook]

Sorry to inform you but these drugs can be used in any way from sniffing to smoking or the needle

[@timothybaker4091]

Big Pharma created fentanyl to be a mucosal delivery product. It absorbs quickly inside the lip, nose etc.

[@lamborghiniperlini1710]

Braindead take

[@bestestgaming8454]

lol imagine blaming the needle

[@timothybaker4091]

@@bestestgaming8454 Remember when you first learned about what drugs were? I wish the whole world was so naive.