The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
It’s time to face up to the unavoidable costs of addictions
July 24, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
It would be terrible enough if Canada’s and British Columbia’s only addiction problem were people dying from poisoned street drugs. But it’s not. People are dying because they can’t get treatment when they need it. They’re dying because recovery services are difficult to find, expensive to...
Methadone is making its way onto the streets
July 24, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
“Free medication delivery all over Greater Vancouver.” Pharmacist Alnazir Asaria was offering that in online ads that ran until March 2017, when the B.C. College of Pharmacists suspended him, put a reprimand letter on his file and forbade him from working as pharmacist until he passed an exam on...
Lax rules make addictions ‘treatment’ a fertile ground for scammers
July 24, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
Even before William Griffith Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his physician explained that addiction isn’t a moral failing, it is a medical condition. Yet, even though most of us know people in recovery, suffering from addictions or someone who has died in the current fentanyl overd...
New UBC Professorship to Look at Pot’s Potential in Easing the Opioid Crisis
July 24, 2018 | The Tyee
UBC is creating Canada’s first professorship of cannabis science to investigate the role that marijuana-based research could play in mitigating the opioid crisis and other addictive disorders. The two-year position is being created in partnership with the BC Centre on Substance Use, the province�...
Local praise for report detailing addictions recovery strategies
July 23, 2018 | CFJC Today
A recent report by the BC Centre on Substance Use outlines strategies for strengthening recovery from addictions and reducing the stigma faced by those entering that process. The report provides evidence of the positive impact the recovery process has on individuals....
