The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
Pilot program establishes Vancouver’s first drug-testing clinic outside of the Downtown Eastside
April 16, 2019 | Vancouver Courier
The equivalent population of a small Canadian city has died in the three years since a public health emergency was declared, and the days of trusting a guy who knows a guy are over. Harm reduction advocates and public health officials time and again say the root cause of the opioid crisis is inextri...
B.C. Liberals calling on province to stagger welfare cheques to avoid ‘Welfare Wednesday’
April 11, 2019 | Global News BC
It’s a day first responders across the province worry about: welfare cheque day. B.C. Liberal MLA Jane Thornthwaite is hoping to change that. Currently, the provincial government distributes welfare cheques on the third or fourth Wednesday of the month. First responders have seen a significant inc...
VCH officials say opioid overdoses spiked recently, related to toxic additives
April 11, 2019 | Global News BC
Officials with Vancouver Coastal Health say they’ve been dealing with an uptick in overdoses over the past few weeks — and the drugs are being cut with synthetics that naloxone doesn’t work on. VCH Addiction Program director Keith Ahamad said it’s happening to people who take opioids cut wit...
Drug-policy advocates plan parade through downtown Vancouver as united call for “safe supply”
April 09, 2019 | Georgia Straight
Next Tuesday (April 16), a boisterous parade of drug users, friends, and family, will march from the Downtown Eastside to the Vancouver Art Gallery. The demonstration will call for government action on the overdose epidemic—a health crisis that killed more than 1,500 people in B.C. last year. Th...
