The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Opioid crisis: Moss Park overdose prevention site thrown a lifeline
May 22, 2018 | NOW Toronto
The unsanctioned safe injection site housed for nine months in a tent at Moss Park gets some much-needed funding and a permanent space indoors, but without decriminalization of hard drugs activists say the opioid crisis can’t be beaten On May 11, almost nine months after they opened in a tent in M...
A gateway drug? Breaking down two commonly cited assertions by Tory senators as cannabis legalization nears
May 21, 2018 | The Globe and Mail
As legislation to legalize recreational cannabis drags on in the Senate, two assertions about the drug are frequently cited by skeptics in the Red Chamber: that ending prohibition will lead to an increase in teen use; and that marijuana is a so-called gateway to harder drugs. … M.J. Milloy, an inf...
B.C. to forbid snack sales in cannabis retail stores
May 18, 2018 | BIV
As the smoke clears on how the B.C. government intends to regulate retail cannabis sales, some stipulations stand out that have retailers scratching their heads. Most key planks in the B.C. government’s plans to control private-sector cannabis sales after the federal government legalizes adult rec...
High levels of fentanyl — and deceit — detected in Vancouver street-drug supply
May 18, 2018 | CBC News
Drug-testing project finds 61% of illegal drugs contained none of the substance buyers were expecting The B.C. Centre on Substance Use says fentanyl cut with caffeine and a sugar substitute is being sold as heroin on Vancouver’s streets. Dr. Ken Tupper says the heroin supply has largely been suppl...
Vancouver drug checks suggest over half of all substances on the street not what expected
May 17, 2018 | 980 CKNW
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