Opioid crisisThe rising number of overdose deaths in Canada dominated health news headlines in 2017, and there's little indication that fatalities will decline anytime soon. "This is a national health public health crisis," she said recently in an interview. Health officials are hopeful that new harm-reduction initiatives, including widening access to the overdose treatment naloxone, will help reduce the number of deaths in 2018. In 2017 legal recreational marijuana started to seem less like a pipe dream. Four elections and five health ministers later, partially hydrogenated oils, the main source of artificial trans fats, were quietly added to Health Canada's List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods in September.

Source: CBC News December 30, 2017 09:56 UTC