The Canadian media report the  opioid crisis as largely a Canadian problem with either Vancouver or Toronto as the focus i.e. what  Vancouver is doing that Toronto could learn from or vice versa. The US is facing an opioid crisis as  well but our relationship to the broader North American phenomenon isn't mentioned, e.g., no mention in this article. Is it a different crisis? Are we already learning from the American experience and they from us?  So far it's conveyed as a tale of two cities.  Yesterday's  New York Times  carried a report by Josh Katz, "Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis"  and calls it "the deadliest drug crisis in American history".  Is Canada experiencing a different, isolated opioid phenomenon to be solved by and among ourselves alone?