The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Innovative Responses to BC’s Opioid Crisis
May 31, 2018 | Vancouver Foundation
No matter how much media attention it receives, the opioid crisis is still too frequently perceived as a problem plaguing the disadvantaged. The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) is trying to combat this dangerous misconception as it pursues its mission to support the development of a...
Marijuana legalization comes one step closer as Senate committee adds amendments to Bill C-45
May 28, 2018 | Global News
A Senate committee has passed more than two dozen amendments to the federal government’s cannabis legalization bill, including one that would allow provinces and territories to ban home-grown marijuana. But the social affairs committee has refused to accept an amendment that would have prohibited ...
Suboxone recognized as new first line of treatment for opioid substitution therapy
May 24, 2018 | CBC News
Opioid replacement drug works quicker and is safer for patients, stakeholders say Jurisdictions in the United States are now using Suboxone as an alternative to methadone to fight the opioid crisis, and Canadian experts are pushing health-care providers to do the same. Suboxone, like methadone, is a...
Drug-checking machine offered to B.C. music festivals as summer season approaches
May 23, 2018 | Global News
With music festival season around the corner, the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) is hoping events will step up drug testing. Dr. Kenneth Tupper says the Shambhala Festival in the Kootenays is the first to have signed up to have a Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) on site. It’s the...
The evidence says safe injection sites needed in Winnipeg
May 22, 2018 | Winnipeg Free Press
In the midst of an unprecedented crisis claiming thousands of lives every year, politics continues to stand in the way of evidence-based health policy. Last week, political leaders in Manitoba expressed their opposition to a health service that could save people from dying of an accidental overdose....
