The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
BCCSU partners with UBC to launch new training program for opioid treatment prescribers
August 02, 2017 | University of British Columbia
The BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) has partnered with UBC’s Faculty of Medicine to launch a new learning program designed to provide opioid addiction treatment support for new treatment prescribers in British Columbia. The Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program (POATSP) combines...
Opinion: How to effectively address the overdose epidemic
July 30, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
We’re now more than a year into the public health emergency declared by British Columbia’s provincial health officer as a result of the province’s rising rate of drug overdose deaths. Tragically, the death toll continues to mount. The latest report from the province’s coroner shows we’re o...
‘No handbook for parents’ when it comes to drug addiction
July 30, 2017 | Times Colonist
Jennifer Howard says every month when the toll of overdose-death statistics is released by the B.C. Coroners Service, she is swept by two major reactions. “It triggers my loss of Robbie and makes me think of the tragedy in that family, of their pain,” said Howard, who lost her son Robert Cunning...
Fentanyl Overdose Survivors Are a Hidden Health Crisis
July 27, 2017 | VICE
Brain damage, paralysis, and organ failure are just a few of the lasting problems some OD survivors take with them. Being brought back from the brink of death during an overdose might be a second chance at life, but the aftermath can lead to a host of health issues for the person who’s been saved....
Stopping the opioid epidemic means smarter prescribing
July 27, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Evan Wood is the director of the B.C. Centre on Substance Use and a professor of medicine and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. One of the confusing ironies of addressing the opioid crisis is that halting overdose deaths will require stopping prescribing for some, while ac...
