The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Overdose crisis: B.C.’s top doctor calls for decriminalization of drug possession for personal use
April 24, 2019 | Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s top doctor on Wednesday unveiled a bold proposal to slow the overdose crisis by decriminalizing the possession of drugs for personal use, but the provincial public safety minister says he won’t run afoul of federal laws to make such a change. In a special report, Provincial Health Officer...
Family and friends gather to remember loved ones who died of overdose
April 23, 2019 | Times Colonist
Janice Walker tried to hold back tears Tuesday as she lit a candle for her son who died of a drug overdose. Walker, 47, lost her middle child, Joe, on Dec. 11, 2016. He was 25. He experimented with drugs at age 14 and became a high-functioning addict until an opioid prescription for dental surgery s...
Vancouver program paving the way in addiction training for health-care workers
April 18, 2019 | CBC News (BC)
A Vancouver-based program has grown into North America’s largest addiction medicine training program only six years into its run. Since 2013, 90 health-care providers have been trained to become experts in treating patients dealing with substance use through the Addiction Medicine Fellowship. The ...
One doctor’s answer to drug deaths: opioid vending machines
April 17, 2019 | WIRED
IT’S A WINTER afternoon in Vancouver, and Mark Tyndall is taking me on a tour of all the places people can go if they want to use drugs and be pretty sure they won’t die. BLUE TARPS AND shabby tents with people sleeping in them line our route in the Downtown Eastside, where the wail of an ambu...
Regulate supply or deaths will continue, hundreds cry in Vancouver’s annual march to end the overdose crisis
April 16, 2019 | Georgia Straight
Hundreds of people marched through downtown Vancouver today (April 16). Five years into an overdose crisis that’s killed thousands in B.C., protesters called for Canada to regulate drugs. They want the federal government to take the country’s illicit-narcotics supply away from organized crime an...
