The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Doctors must help remedy opioid crisis in Canada, CMA told
August 22, 2017 | CTV News
QUEBEC – Canada’s opioid epidemic isn’t a single crisis but a complex set of overlapping crises that will take multiple strategies to solve, a panel of experts told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association on Tuesday. “This is a crisis for Canada and every commu...
Don’t criminalize people on HIV treatment
August 21, 2017 | Globe and Mail
Dr. Julio Montaner is a UBC-Killam Professor of Medicine and the UBC-St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation chair in AIDS Research. Dr. Kora DeBeck is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy and research scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. T...
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 ...
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...
