The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?
August 21, 2017 | Macleans
Legalized marijuana offers chance to investigate substitution effects for people who use opioids It’s hard to go a day in Canada without hearing about at least one of two types of drugs – but for vastly different reasons. One class of drug — opioids — kills four people a day in British Colum...
Your Call: How is Vancouver dealing with its opioid crisis & what can we learn from it?
August 21, 2017 | KALW
Vancouver and San Francisco are iconic West Coast cities with many things in common — including large numbers of people addicted to hard drugs. In recent years, Vancouver has been at the forefront of new approaches to addiction, including safe injection sites. As San Francisco considers similar ...
Can Safe Injection Sites Calm the Opioid Crisis?
August 21, 2017 | MedPage Today
Support for establishing safe injection facilities (SIFs) — places where people can use their own illicit drugs under medical supervision — is growing in the United States, but the backlash against the model has been fierce. … Although some critics have noted that the overdose rate hasn’t ch...
Non-residents said to be crowding housing facility on Johnson Street
August 17, 2017 | Times Colonist
Former tent city residents living at 844 Johnson St. say even with rules requiring guests to sign in and restricting overnight stays, the building is crowded with non-residents, including some surreptitiously subletting rooms. Portland Hotel Society, which manages the supportive housing complex on b...
Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?
August 13, 2017 | The Conversation
It’s hard to go a day in Canada without hearing about at least one of two types of drugs – but for vastly different reasons. One class of drug — opioids — kills four people a day in British Columbia. The other — cannabis — will be legal for adult purchase and consumption by this time nex...
