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A cartoon of a European influenza hospital.

The Russian Flu: Was a Nineteenth-Century Outbreak Actually the Result of a Coronavirus?

March 1, 2022November 3, 2022 - by Dan Werb

Leading scientists are looking to history to see if coronavirus epidemics have been hiding in plain sight

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Illustration by Gracia Lam

December 2014 / Feature

Oxy Town

December 18, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Dan Werb

Prescription opioids, a small Ontario community, and the failure of the war on drugs

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A circus tent with the banner saying "Miscellany"

Cannabis / May 2014

Weeding Out Organized Crime

April 14, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Dan Werb

What legal pot in the US means for BC drug gangs

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler

Feature / September 2013

The Fix

September 19, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Dan Werb

A new way of thinking about the intractable problem of injection drug use

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