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Bruce Deachman
Reporter, The Ottawa Citizen
Reporter, The Ottawa Citizen
Bruce Deachman has been a reporter, senior writer and columnist with The Ottawa Citizen for close to 30 years. Over that time, he has covered a wide variety of topics, including health issues, politics, arts and entertainment, sports and municipal affairs. Throughout his career, he has focused on those whose stories have built and defined our city and society – whether high-profile or highly marginalized.
- 'The bodies are piling up': Inside the opioid epidemic and the crisis that won't go away
- 'When they buy those drugs, it's a loaded gun'
- 'There's no blood test for addiction': Troubling data in the opioid crisis
- The shame of opioids: Confronting the crisis by addressing stigma
- Should Ottawa take notes from other countries dealing with an opioid crisis?
- Getting off fentanyl: 'It takes all your cares and puts them aside'
- Chasing the dragon: the science of addiction
- A mother's grief: 'You're never there. There's always work to be done'
- 'If there was an easy solution, we would have found it': The future of the opioid crisis in Ottawa