The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Peer support workers on front lines of overdose crisis need support too, experts say
August 12, 2018 | Canadian Press
Trey Helten has known almost every one of the 50 or so people he has treated for overdoses on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside since February. As a former heroin and methamphetamine user who lived in the neighbourhood for three years before getting clean and returning “to do something positive,” ...
Peer support workers on front lines of overdose crisis need support too, experts say
August 12, 2018 | The Globe and Mail
rey Helten has known almost every one of the 50 or so people he has treated for overdoses on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside since February. As a former heroin and methamphetamine user who lived in the neighbourhood for three years before getting clean and returning “to do something positive,” h...
Why cannabis vape pens and concentrates are illegal
August 10, 2018 | CBC On The Coast
On the Coast’s Greenlit columnist Rohit Joseph tells host Gloria Macarenko why vape pens and cannabis concentrates will not be allowed come October 17....
Tories: London’s supervised drug-use site can continue operating
August 10, 2018 | The London Free Press
On the campaign trail, Doug Ford said he was “dead against” the kind of supervised drug-use sites that London and other Ontario cities are turning to amid a deadly opioid drug crisis sweeping their streets. Thursday, with time running out to keep London’s temporary drug overdose-prevention sit...
People with HIV receiving methadone and HIV drugs spend less time with detectable viral load
August 10, 2018 | aidsmap
People on methadone maintenance treatment spent less time with a detectable viral load above 1500 copies/ml, potentially reducing the risk of HIV transmission, a study presented at last month’s 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) has found. Methadone is an opioid substitution treatment ...
