The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Ottawa mulls unconventional B.C.-style therapies for opioid addiction
January 19, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Ottawa will consider adopting national guidelines for prescription heroin and other unconventional therapies to treat severe opioid addiction, looking to guidelines being developed by doctors in British Columbia, where such treatments are already available on a small scale. Federal Health Minister J...
Give free clean drugs to addicted users, say top B.C. health officials
January 19, 2017 | The Province
VICTORIA “” Top health officials in B.C. are actively discussing a plan to prescribe clean heroin or other opioids to people with addictions, in an attempt to stem the rising death toll caused by street drugs tainted with fentanyl. B.C.’s chief medical officer, Dr. Perry Kendall, said ...
Roadblocks to treatment can trigger intravenous drug use in disadvantaged youth
January 06, 2017 | Addictions Now
Researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS conducted a study that examined the relationship between initiation of intravenous drug use (IDU) and the inability to receive addiction therapy among street-involved youth in Canada. “We wanted to understand how common it w...
Mobile Medical Unit brings hope, relief to B.C. overdose victims
January 02, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
The woman sits slouched in a black folding chair, slowly regaining her strength. She is recovering from her second overdose since being released from jail just four days earlier and physicians are watching her closely. She is crying. … It was easier to get street drugs than it was to get help,...
Canada faces deadly fentanyl overdose crisis
January 02, 2017 | Yahoo
Vancouver (AFP) – Sirens scream non-stop through the urban heart of Vancouver, as responders race toward drug addicts overdosing — and dying in such numbers that the city’s morgues are full. This wealthy Pacific coast city is the bleak epicenter of an opioid epidemic that has claim...