The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
B.C. to bolster service to test drugs for fentanyl
November 09, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
British Columbia is set to expand a program to allow people to check their street drugs for fentanyl, the latest harm-reduction initiative to roll out amid skyrocketing overdose deaths. The most recent figures from the provincial government show 1,103 confirmed deaths from overdoses of illicit drugs...
MJ Milloy, Cannabis and Addiction
November 07, 2017 | The Green Scene Podcast
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Hands-on Naloxone courses go Canada-wide
November 07, 2017 | Todino-Ucluelet Westerly News
St. John Ambulance has offered the training in B.C. for months to combat growing crisis St. John’s Ambulance is rolling out its hands-on courses on how to inject the overdose-reversal drug Naloxone across the country. The courses, which have been offered in B.C. for several months, tackle Naloxone...
Analysis | Debate over drug consumption sites might be coming to end
November 05, 2017 | CBC News
An increase in sites has not been matched by an increase in complaints In the space of two years, the number of supervised consumption sites approved to operate in Canada has gone from one to 22, plus three interim sites. In November 2015, when Justin Trudeau’s new Liberal government was sworn...
MDMA’s Journey from Molly to Medicine
November 03, 2017 | Scientific American
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy readies for phase III trials, a last step before possible prescription use in PTSD patients James Casey recalls having a fondness for fireworks while growing up on the outskirts of small towns in rural Louisiana and North Carolina. That was before his 2011 deployment as a...