The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
B.C. harm-reduction sites, doctors struggling with new type of overdose
July 09, 2019 | Vancouver Sun
Doctors and frontline health-care workers say they are responding to an increasing number of overdoses involving opioids contaminated with benzodiazepines, restricted substances normally used to treat anxiety. Benzodiazepines don’t respond to emergency treatments such as naloxone, or Narcan, which...
New Evidence From British Columbia Provides a Strong Case for Harm Reduction Strategies
July 08, 2019 | Cato Institute
A study published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction by researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use found that harm reduction strategies were responsible for the province’s opioid-related overdose death rate being...
Study shows ’empirical’ link between residential schools and Indigenous youth in care: researcher
July 04, 2019 | CBC News (BC)
New research conducted at the University of British Columbia is shedding light on the relationship between residential schools and the modern day child welfare system. Brittany Barker, a postdoctoral fellow with the BC Centre on Substance Use, said the impact of intergenerational trauma from the res...
Vancouver police fentanyl seizures more than doubled in 2018
July 02, 2019 | Vancouver Sun
Vancouver police seizures of fentanyl have spiked as the powerful opioid continues to appear in startling amounts of street-level drugs. Cops confiscated over 18,000 grams of fentanyl and its variants in 2018 over the course of 1,182 seizures. That’s up from 8,624 g seized over the course of 399 s...
The cannabis-psychosis debate is being driven by fear mongering, not facts
July 01, 2019 | Globe and Mail
As the legalization of recreational cannabis gains traction across North America, one of the most-debated health concerns is psychosis and cannabis use, particularly for young people. Frustratingly, both sides often resort to cherry picking data or conflating correlation with causation. Anecdotes, n...
