The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
BC-Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors calls for heroin buyer clubs
September 01, 2019 | Globe and Mail
A group of people who have real life experience with drug use in British Columbia and Yukon is calling on the B.C. government to support a community-led mechanism for a safe drug supply, in order to combat deaths from poisoning by powerful adulterants like fentanyl and carfentanil. The BC-Yukon Asso...
The year fentanyl hit the street, I overdosed six times. The solution is a safer drug supply
August 31, 2019 | The Star
VANCOUVER—I spent 20 years injecting heroin. During the year that fentanyl hit the streets, I overdosed six times. On each occasion, I consumed what I believed was heroin but was probably fentanyl or its analogues — 100 times stronger than what I thought I was using. Because of the quick reflexe...
Sanders and Warren Back Legalization of Injection Sites for Drug Users
August 29, 2019 | Truthout
Ryan Hampton has a message for politicians and the rest of us: He would have entered recovery much earlier if there were a safe consumption site in Los Angeles, where he struggled with heroin addiction for years. Safe consumption sites, also known as overdose prevention sites, safe injection sites a...
Support needed for overdose survivors living with brain damage, B.C. doctors say
August 28, 2019 | Vancouver Sun
It’s been three years since Valerie Wilson’s son suffered a brain injury following a drug overdose. The Port Moody mother calls her son “fearless”. He was an ironworker by trade who taught himself how to ride a two-wheel bike as a toddler. But the overdose affected his sense of balance, spee...
Provincial government must do more to ensure safe drug supply, says dad of overdose victim
August 28, 2019 | CBC News - BC
A B.C. man whose son died of fentanyl poisoning is calling on the provincial government to do more to ensure a safe drug supply. John Hedican’s son, Ryan, died on a Vancouver job site in 2017. The 26-year-old was a loving older brother to two siblings and had just finished eight months of re...
