The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Why Drug Dealers Are an Under-Utilized Anti-Overdose Resource
May 28, 2019 | Filter
Last year, a man in his 20s attending Electric Forest, a Michigan music festival, began to cry after discovering that the cocaine he had been selling tested positive for fentanyl—the potent opioid significantly driving the overdose crisis. “Today, for the first time, unknown to me, I had somethi...
Vancouver councillor proposes better access to legal weed over hard drugs in DTES
May 27, 2019 | CTV News Vancouver
For Downtown Eastside residents, accessing legal marijuana as an alternative for harder drugs is not an easy task. However a Vancouver city councillor is trying to change that, by ending a three-year-old exclusion zone keeping a potential low-cost, legal opioid alternative out of the area, and creat...
How to Legalize Every Drug
May 22, 2019 | VICE
Scott Bernstein has a lofty goal to realize before he hits retirement: he wants to see Canada legalize and regulate all drugs. “We’re maybe 10 years away from legal regulation,” Bernstein, 53, director of policy for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, told VICE. As Canada continues to work out...
Trailblazers 2019: Dr. Christy Sutherland pioneers opioid substitution with hydromorphone in Vancouver
May 22, 2019 | Georgia Straight
The winter of 2016 was a scary time in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Overdoses were occurring at a frightening pace. Dr. Christy Sutherland’s patients were especially at risk. As a staff physician for the nonprofit Portland Hotel Society (PHS), she provides care for an especially vulnerable gro...
New Vancouver research project provides home drug-testing kits to users
May 17, 2019 | Vancouver Courier
On the same day new provincial data showed most drug-related deaths occur in private residences, local health agencies announced a research project that works toward combatting that very phenomenon. On May 15, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) announced a...
