For the more than seven million elementary, high school, college and university students in Canada, it's back to school. But as students gear up for another school year, they face a daunting reality: the opioid crisis. In British Columbia, where the opioid epidemic has been declared a public health emergency, at least 800 people have died from an opioid overdose this year. We live in an era where we can't know what's in any of these substances, including substances that might even look like prescription medication. Back-to-school drugs Q&A LIVE NOW: Canadian teens are going back to school amid a national opioid crisis.

Source: CBC News September 03, 2017 09:00 UTC