The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
“Cannabis Substitution Therapy”: Can Cannabis Ease Opioid Withdrawal?
September 05, 2024 | Talking Drugs
Rosie Rurka had a reputation as the frontline drugs worker who brought people back from the dead with naloxone after they had overdosed at the beginning of British Columbia’s overdose crisis. Now, she is better known for supplying people addicted to opioids with high-dose cannabis edibles, in a ...
Mom who lost son to overdose speaks to raise awareness
August 30, 2024 | Times Colonist
Leslie Mcbain lost her son to a drug overdose 10 years ago. Since then, she has worked to help others whose loved ones also died from substance use. Mcbain said her son, Jordan Miller, was 25 when he died from a combination of pharmaceutical drugs in 2014. It led her to co-found the group Moms Stop ...
New St. Paul’s program offers fast, long-term help to those seeking addiction recovery
August 27, 2024 | Vancouver Sun
It was the bed that changed everything — comforting and soft, with a thin blue curtain for privacy. “That bed showed me what life could be like,” said Ryan Top, a recovering alcoholic and addict. Top said his life was saved by Road to Recovery, a new program at St. Paul’s Hospital. Opened in...
I almost died of an overdose. Then I got sober, got married and had three kids. Ask my family if closing supervised consumption sites is a good idea
August 25, 2024 | Toronto Star
The last time I used heroin was on an otherwise unremarkable Monday in February, 2013. I was 42 years of age, and had been using drugs since I was 12, when I discovered how they helped me avoid my depression and suicidal thoughts. By the time that Monday rolled around, I’d been addicted to heroin ...
Province says crime is an issue around CTS sites, but data shows that’s not the case in Kitchener
August 23, 2024 | CBC News
Calls to police about several types of crime and delinquency have decreased in downtown Kitchener and Guelph since supervised consumption and treatment services (CTS) sites opened in the neighbourhoods, police data suggests. And experts who have studied the sites say the research shows they donR...
