The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
How Tripping on Ayahuasca Could Help People with Eating Disorders
November 21, 2017 | Broadly
Could a powerfully hallucinogenic tea hold the key to treating eating disorders? A new study interviews ED sufferers who have experimented with the herbal drug from the Amazon. Broadly is partnering with the Global Drug Survey, the biggest drugs survey in the world, to find out more about women’...
Families of overdose victims join letter-writing campaign
November 19, 2017 | Times Colonist
Leslie McBain gets from one to six emails every day from families of people who have died from drug overdoses. “They just want to reach out to somebody who gets it,” said McBain, an advocate and Pender Island resident who lost her 25-year-old son Jordan Miller to an overdose in Victoria in 2014....
Hospital security guards increasingly using force against Vancouver patients, raising questions of care
November 18, 2017 | The Georgia Straight
Private security guards at B.C. hospitals are responding to violent incidents more frequently, according to statistics obtained under freedom-of-information legislation. This article was written in partnership with Cited Podcast. Listen to a related radio documentary about the fentanyl crisis a...
National Addictions Awareness Week: battling addiction
November 15, 2017 | Global News Morning BC
This week is National Addictions Awareness Week. Dr. Seonaid Nolan, a St. Paul’s Hospital addictions physician, joins Global News Morning to talk about why it’s important to raise awareness this week....
Why Canada should declare a national opioid emergency too
November 15, 2017 | The Conversation
In the United States, President Donald Trump has formally declared the opioid overdose crisis to be a national public health emergency. The numbers he cited speak for themselves: More than 64,000 Americans died from opioid overdose last year, which translates to more than 175 per day, or almost seve...
