The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Need drug treatment? You should be able to ‘ask for help once and get support right away’: B.C. report
July 18, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s drug treatment system has focused on harm reduction to save lives during the overdose crisis, but now must emphasize long-term treatment to ensure substance users can recover, says a new report by the B.C. Centre on Substance Use....
New reports finds that help and support should be readily available for people suffering with addiction
July 18, 2018 | CKNW The Simi Sara Show
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Access to addiction treatment and recovery
July 18, 2018 | CBC BC Today
Dr. Evan Wood, director of the BC Centre on Substance Use, Marshall Smith, senior advisor, recovery initiatives at BCCSU, active drug user Karen Ward and Leslie McBain, co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm and family engagement lead at BCCSU on access to addiction treatment and recovery....
B.C.’s addictions strategy should focus more on recovery: report
July 18, 2018 | CTV News
A report on best practices for recovery from addiction suggests British Columbia should shift its focus from the current harm reduction strategy. The BC Centre on Substance Use outlined the path to a recovery-oriented system of care that it says is urgently needed. “British Columbia has long suffe...
Long-term equitable recovery services needed to manage addiction in B.C.: report
July 18, 2018 | Canadian Press
When the daily partying, boozing and cocaine binges following high school left him homeless and living in a tent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Josh McDearmid believed his life would end there. “I was born into addiction and I thought: ‘This is who I turned out to be and if I die down here,...
