The BC Centre on Substance Use is a provincially networked organization with a mandate to develop, help implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and addiction.
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Leading an innovative multidisciplinary program of research, monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement activities to guide health system improvements in the area of substance use.
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Overdose prevention sites provide wide range of health benefits: new research
December 2, 2021
Read moreThe scaling-up of overdose prevention sites (OPS) in Vancouver beginning in December 2016 was associated with a range of health benefits, including an increase in
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Researchers to investigate vaccine uptake, efficacy and side effects in vulnerable urban populations
July 14, 2021
Read moreUrban centres across Canada are home to many vulnerable populations who are more at risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 and developing serious complications from COVID-19. The
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Shoppers Drug Mart steps up with UBC, BCCSU to improve addiction treatment and care
June 10, 2021
Read moreShoppers Drug Mart Inc (“Shoppers Drug Mart”) is stepping up to improve addiction treatment and care for all Canadians by supporting pharmacist training and education
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BC Centre on Substance Use statement on City of Vancouver decriminalization submission
May 11, 2021
Read moreThe BC Centre on Substance Use has signed onto an open letter in response to the City of Vancouver’s proposed submission to Health Canada on
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Cheyenne Johnson appointed Executive Director at BC Centre on Substance Use
April 19, 2021
Read moreCheyenne Johnson has been appointed Executive Director of the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). Ms. Johnson was selected following a recruitment process led by
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Mitra S, Grant C, Nolan S, Mohd Salleh NA, Milloy MJ, Richardson L Assessing the temporality between transitions onto opioid agonist therapy and engagement with antiretroviral therapy in a cohort of HIV-positive people who use opioids daily AIDS Behav PubMed
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Olding M, Cook A, Austin T, Boyd J "They went down that road, and they get it": A qualitative study of peer support worker roles within perinatal substance use programs J Subst Abuse Treat PubMed
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Bahji A, Brothers TD, Danilewitz M Considering cannabis use in differential diagnosis: a teachable moment JAMA Intern Med PubMed
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Schwartz C, Tooley L, Knight R, Steinberg M Queering poppers literature: a critical interpretive synthesis of health sciences research on alkyl nitrite use and Canadian policy Int J Drug Policy PubMed
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Pilarinos A, Bromberg DJ, Karamouzian M Access to medications for opioid use disorder and associated factors among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review JAMA Pediatr PubMed
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