The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Free heroin for drug users
October 12, 2017 | Global News
The B.C. government is the first in North America to have guidelines to treat hardcore addicts with prescription heroin. Aaron McArthur explains why the experts say it saves both lives and money....
New B.C. guidelines unveiled for prescription heroin
October 12, 2017 | Global News
The BC Centre on Substance Abuse Use (BCCSU) has announced B.C.’s first ever guidelines for injectable opioid treatments. B.C. addictions expert, Dr. Seonaid Nolan says this is a step in the right direction. Dr. Nolan, addiction medicine physician at St. Paul’s Hospital and a clinical research...
B.C. now has a roadmap for how to prescribe drugs like heroin, for opioid addiction
October 11, 2017 | Global News
Researchers have long considered the possibility that drugs like prescription heroin and hydromorphone could be used to treat opioid addiction. Now, the BC Centre on Substance Abuse Use (BCCSU) has issued guidelines for how to prescribe them in the province. The BCCSU said the treatments could help ...
Urgent need for injectable addiction treatment in B.C.: addictions minister
October 11, 2017 | The Province
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s addictions minister has asked health authorities to move quickly to increase use of an injectable drug that could save the lives of chronic substance users who haven’t responded to treatment with oral medication. Judy Darcy says hydromorphone is urgently needed f...
Will Psychedelic Therapy Transform Mental Health Care?
October 11, 2017 | NBC News
Therapeutic ‘trips’ may someday bring relief from addiction, anxiety, depression — and even the fear of death. In the mid-1950s, LSD and other psychedelic drugs took the medical world by storm — and no wonder. Studies at the time suggested that the hallucinogens were effective against a vari...
