The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
Opinion: Drug-checking services could help prevent overdoses
August 11, 2017 | The Vancouver Sun
In recent years across B.C., a public-health tragedy has resulted in thousands of preventable deaths from street drugs containing powerful opioids such as fentanyl or its analogs. Toxicity from adulteration has occurred not just in the heroin supply, but also in stimulants, club drugs and counterfei...
Facing Up to the Fentanyl Crisis
August 11, 2017 | Research2Reality
What’s being done in Canada to deal with the dangerous drug? And do you know what to do if you suspect a fentanyl overdose? Fentanyl is a hundred times more potent than heroin, and a dose the size of a grain of sand is enough to kill you. Fentanyl’s potency makes it cheaper and easier t...
Opening a supervised injection site ‘not a simple process’; new guidelines aim to help
August 10, 2017 | CBC
With more supervised injections sites opening in B.C. and applications moving through the Health Canada approval process, the B.C. Centre for Substance Use has published a new set of guidelines for running these facilities. Associate director Dr. Thomas Kerr says the guidelines are designe...
