The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Health care and the Canadian election: What experts are hoping to hear
March 24, 2025 | Healthy Debate
While economic uncertainty amidst yo-yoing threats from the United States overshadows all other issues in the coming election, Canadian health-care leaders will be listening closely to what our federal politicians have to say on the campaign trail. Just a matter of months ago, Conservative leader ...
B.C. failing most vulnerable amid toxic drug crisis, critics say: ‘It’s heart-wrenching’
March 24, 2025 | Global News
The painful toll of the province’s homelessness crisis is on full display just steps away from the Law Courts in Vancouver, where a man has been hovering over a small steam grate on the sidewalk for weeks. During Sunday’s pouring rain storm, the man was wrapped in soaking wet blankets while tr...
Naloxone kits now available at SFU campuses
March 18, 2025 | CityNews Vancouver
Calls for increased harm reduction and overdose prevention supplies to be available at post-secondary institutions are being answered in the Lower Mainland. Back in January 2024, Vancouver-born-and-raised Cailin Sidney McIntyire-Starko was killed after fentanyl poisoning and was later found in her U...
Using Marijuana Every Day Could Help People Quit Opioids, New Study Indicates
March 05, 2025 | Marijuana Moment
A newly published study found that among drug users who experience chronic pain, daily cannabis use was linked to a higher likelihood of quitting the use of opioids—especially among men. “Participants reporting daily cannabis use exhibited higher rates of cessation compared to less frequent user...
Toxic drug deaths appear to be falling in B.C.—and no one is sure why
February 25, 2025 | CTV News
Frontline workers, drug users and experts alike are unsure why the number of reported deaths from toxic drugs appears to be decreasing in British Columbia, since the same trend is also taking place in jurisdictions with very different policies. Early this month, the BC Coroners Service announced tha...
