The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Less than 40% of Vancouver street drugs contain their expected substance
August 03, 2018 | Daily Hive
The majority of street drugs tested in Vancouver don’t contain the substance people thought they’d purchased, according to results of a drug checking pilot study. The pilot study was implemented in November 2017 and over the first six months of the study, researchers tested 1,714 substances, fin...
Vancouver Pride celebration to offer anonymous drug checks
August 03, 2018 | CBC News
For the first time, those planning to use street drugs at Vancouver’s Pride celebration can anonymously screen them for dangerous substances like fentanyl. As Pride weekend kicks off Friday evening, a drug checking machine called a spectrometer will be available to the public between 6 p.m. and 9 ...
Overdose intervention project shows Vancouver needs more social housing: researcher
August 02, 2018 | News1130
A new study is shining a different light on single room occupancy hotels in Vancouver when it comes to overdoses. Researchers say the city needs to invest in more SROs and other low-income housing options in order to ensure more people receive the overdose interventions they need....
B.C. overdose deaths drop in June, more than 100 still dying each month
August 02, 2018 | Canadian Press
The latest overdose statistics in British Columbia show a dip in the number of suspected illicit drug deaths in June compared with the same month a year earlier, but the death toll remains high. More than 100 British Columbians are dying of overdoses each month, or more than three people every day, ...
Peer-led overdose response program highlights need for better housing supports, says report
August 02, 2018 | StarMetro Vancouver
A program to train tenants of the Downtown Eastside’s single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels in emergency overdose response highlights the need for greater investments in both peer-led intervention and in social assistance and housing policy reform, according to research from the British Columbia Cent...
