The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Is the fentanyl situation an overdose crisis or a poisoning crisis?
September 02, 2017 | CBC News
When someone drinks too much, we call it alcohol poisoning. When someone takes too much of a drug, we call it an overdose. The difference in language may seem slight, but it says a lot about how our society differentiates between alcohol users and drug users. Some medical professionals workin...
Hundreds attend vigil in Victoria to mark International Overdose Awareness Day
August 31, 2017 | CHECK
Hundreds gathered in Victoria to bring attention to a province-wide public health emergency on International Overdose Awareness Day. A candlelight vigil was held in Centennial Square to honour and remember those who have lost their lives to the overdose crisis. Almost 2,000 people have died from il...
My son’s death offers lessons for ending the overdose epidemic
August 31, 2017 | Globe and Mail
Leslie McBain is the founder of Moms Stop the Harm, a network of parents who have lost children to drug harms, and provides guidance to the BC Centre on Substance Use as their family engagement lead. On Feb. 4, 2014, my only child died – alone – of an accidental overdose. Jordan’s death was a ...
5 things we could do right now to curb drug overdose epidemic
August 31, 2017 | Metro News
Thursday is International Overdose Awareness Day, and Metro looks at just a few of the ideas to end an ongoing epidemic that’s on track to kill 1,560 British Columbians in 2017 — 70 per cent worse than last year. … Legalize and prescribe drugs It sounds extreme, but what could be more extreme ...
Men between 19 and 59 new focus of B.C.’s deadly overdose epidemic
August 29, 2017 | National Post
VANCOUVER — Too many men working in trades are overdosing on opioids, says a chief medical health officer in British Columbia who wants the industry to be involved in identifying interventions that could save lives. Dr. Victoria Lee of Fraser Health said men between the ages of 19 and 59 are dispr...
