The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Drug users say methadone formula switch contributed to B.C.’s opioid crisis
September 04, 2017 | Globe and Mail
Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated treatment drug they say hasn’t worked and has instead contributed to the opioid epidemic. Brad Williamson, 34, sits on a couch with o...
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 prof...
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 fro...
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 wa...
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 ...
