The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
This teen is winning his battle with drug addiction, but too many other B.C. youth not protected
July 20, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
Eighteen-year-old Cade Hansen’s love for music inspired his roles in the theatre as a youth, his performances in choirs and bands as a teen, and his plan to study music production after finishing high school. Along the engaging young man’s musical path, though, were detours caused by his struggl...
Need drug treatment? You should be able to ‘ask for help once and get support right away’: B.C. report
July 19, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
Through all the harm-reduction and outreach services that kept Josh McDearmid alive during three grim years of drinking and using cocaine on Downtown Eastside streets, he says no one mentioned recovery to him — that there was the opportunity for him to get better. “When I was out on the streets ...
‘Recovery high schools,’ per diems urged to better manage addiction in B.C.
July 18, 2018 | Black Press
The BC Centre on Substance Use is recommending ways to improve addiction recovery across B.C. and shift the focus from preventing overdose deaths to comprehensive long-term care. In a report released Wednesday, the centre said recovery in B.C. has historically focused on harm reduction and acute tre...
Harm-reduction is not enough to fight addictions, report says
July 18, 2018 | Victoria Times Colonist
No one should be written off as being “beyond help” when it comes to addictions, says a new research paper by the B.C. Centre on Substance Use, which says authorities should move beyond harm reduction. Called Strategies to Strengthen Recovery in British Columbia, the paper says it is time for au...
Time to move beyond harm reduction to focus on addictions recovery
July 18, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
With every new drug crisis in the past three decades, the B.C. government’s response has been harm reduction — needle exchanges, safe injection sites, opioid replacement therapies, prescription medical-grade heroin and naloxone. Missing have been corresponding increases in addictions treatment a...
