The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
Downtown Eastside drug users give Canada’s new health minister a to-do list for the fentanyl crisis
October 04, 2017 | The Georgia Straight
Canada’s new health minister made a quiet visit to the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) headquarters last Saturday (October 21). Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Liberal MP for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, made the stop in the Downtown Eastside while out west for a meeting with provincial counter...
Addiction vaccines in development
October 04, 2017 | The National
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B.C. funding rapid-access treatment, public safety to address overdose crisis
September 29, 2017 | Nanaimo News NOW
VANCOUVER — People on the front lines of British Columbia’s opioid overdose crisis are applauding the government’s announcement of more funding in an attempt to stem the death toll. Premier John Horgan announced Friday the province will spend more than $31 million over t...
Justice costs of stimulant use in Downtown Eastside not reduced by current treatment options
September 28, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
A study of nearly 1,600 drug users on the Downtown Eastside found that people who use multiple stimulants daily cost the justice system thousands of dollars a month, and that currently available drug treatment programs do not reduce the costs of crime. Researchers sorted drug users into eight catego...
