The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Are ‘Supervised Injection Sites’ for Drug Users a Good Idea?
February 13, 2018 | healthline
Philadelphia, San Francisco, and other U.S. cities are considering opening sites where people addicted to drugs can inject with clean needles under supervision. Philadelphia is pushing to become the first U.S. city to legalize supervised injection sites for people addicted to drugs. This is part of ...
Purdue Pharma to stop marketing opioids to U.S. physicians, but policy not extended to Canada
February 11, 2018 | The Globe and Mail
The pharmaceutical giant that misled physicians and patients about the addictive properties of its top-selling drug OxyContin, fuelling an overdose crisis that has devastated communities across North America, will stop marketing opioids to U.S. physicians. However, the new policy does not extend int...
Mayor apologizes for spreading false story about teen dying from fentanyl-laced vape
February 06, 2018 | CBC News
‘You’d think even an amateur, small-town politician would know better than to repeat hearsay,’ Karl Buhr wrote The mayor of Lions Bay, B.C., told a public meeting last month that his son’s “best friend” had died after taking a single hit from fentanyl-laced vape liquid. As it turns out...
The Secret Housing Program Giving Safe Drugs to Addicted Residents
February 05, 2018 | VICE
Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society has been quietly running an opioid substitution program for more than a year. On the ground floor of an old hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Paul Scibak recounted what it’s like waking up with an addiction to heroin. It’s a crippling shot of anxiety ...
Advocates fear Downtown Eastside police crackdown pushes drug users into shadows
February 04, 2018 | Vancouver Sun
While Vancouver police proclaim victory in a recent crackdown on crime in the Downtown Eastside, some locals fear the boost in beat cops is pushing people who use drugs into harm’s way. Last week, Vancouver police increased foot patrols in the impoverished neighbourhood to address “street disord...
