The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Opinion: New government can take immediate steps to address province’s drug crisis
June 16, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
Ambulances criss-cross urban areas responding to overdose calls. City morgues are unable to accommodate the number of citizens lost to toxic drugs. A prominent journalist who covers the gangsters in control of the lucrative illicit drug trade is threatened with death. While this description might so...
The unexpected faces of addiction
June 13, 2017 | CBC News
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New survey on addiction in Canada reveals effective paths to recovery
June 13, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
A new national survey on recovery from drug and alcohol addiction shows promising results for those who manage to overcome the multiple hurdles in accessing treatment. A panel of Canadian addiction experts met Tuesday in Vancouver to present key findings from the survey, titled Life in Recovery fro...
Report on addiction recovery renews call for treatment options
June 13, 2017 | Global News
Drug and alcohol addiction recovery advocates are calling for swift provincial action, based on the findings of a new survey into drug treatment. The Life in Recovery from Addiction in Canada survey, released late last month by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and National Recove...
Battling a fentanyl crisis, B.C. quietly expands access to clean drugs that addicts can substitute for heroin
June 13, 2017 | The Georgia Straight
The province plans to make prescription heroin more widely available, not only to treat severe addictions, but also to save people from the fentanyl crisis and overdose deaths The Portland Hotel Society (PHS) has quietly forged ahead with a lifesaving but controversial tool that could help alleviate...
