The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Price Theory: Can Canada’s Cannabis Law Defeat the Law of Supply and Demand?
October 13, 2017 | Leafly
Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled the government’s proposed tax rate consumers will pay when Canadian provinces start selling adult-use cannabis sale next July. On products retailing for ten dollars or less per gram, the feds will charge a flat dollar (80 cents US) per gra...
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 ...
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...
