The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
South Surrey businessmen get a taste of pot legalization
July 11, 2018 | Peace Arch News
Probus Club of White Rock South Surrey invites researcher for a presentation A curious group of more than 50 businessmen cleared the haze on cannabis legalization Wednesday after hearing from an expert on what regulated pot will mean, generally, for them and the country. Probus Club of White Rock &a...
Canada’s housing crisis reinforces violence against poor women
July 10, 2018 | The Conversation
Canadian cities are in the throes of an unprecedented housing crisis. Lax housing policies and lending practices, along with a previously non-existent national housing strategy have converged, contributing to record-level housing and rental prices. Cities such as Toronto and Vancouver are most affec...
A Mother’s Struggle: If severe addicts don’t want help, should the law allow forced treatment to try to save their lives?
July 08, 2018 | https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/a-mothers-struggle-if-severe-addicts-dont-want-help-should-the-law-allow-forced-treatment-to-try-to-save-their-lives
Christian DeSousa has just entered a treatment centre in B.C.’s Interior after a horrendous eight-year journey with drugs that led him to the streets, hospitals and jails — and, his mother feared, would have ended at the morgue. Because for the last three years of Christian’s downward spiral, ...
Lessons from Vancouver: U.S. cities consider supervised injection facilities
July 05, 2018 | WHYY
In 2016, opioid related deaths surpassed 40,000 in the United States, more than double the toll from six years prior. Deaths continue to climb. Yet an opioid overdose does not have to be fatal. When such drugs overwhelm the brain’s receptors — slowing down and stopping vital functions like breat...
No eggs in a frying pan: Pot messaging needs to be honest and credible, expert says
July 02, 2018 | National Post
Harm reduction messaging around legalized marijuana needs to be ‘honest, credible and specific,’ says the University of Waterloo’s David Hammond The anti-drug ads of the ‘80s were not, as David Hammond notes, terribly honest. In one iconic (and, many critics say, moronic) TV spot, an actor s...
