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Establishing a managed alcohol program checks a box in Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply deal

The Yukon government is aiming to have a new managed alcohol program up and running in Whitehorse by this spring.

CYFN has sent more than 400 people to out-of-territory treatment over three-and-a-half years

Two years after the fatal shooting of two residents in Faro, Yukon, the town's mayor says his community is still without adequate mental health supports.

Yukon's first supervised consumption site for drug users is exceeding expectations and saving lives, according to the territorial government and the non-profit that helps run the facility.

Health minister says dealing with substance use emergency is the government’s top priority

Health officials in Yukon are warning people of a "wave" of toxic drugs in the territory right now, and urging people to be extra cautious about the substances they're using.

In the first three months of 2022, the Yukon’s chief coroner said the territory’s substance use death rate was 74.4 per 100,000 — over three times the national average and well ahead of British Columbia, the province with the second-highest total at 45.3 deaths.