The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
The case for prescription heroin
June 12, 2017 | Vox
Vancouver gives heroin to drug users suffering from addiction — and it works. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Providence Crosstown Clinic is decorated with posters espousing the sort of medical advice you might expect at any other doctor’s office: Cover your cough, wash your hands, don’t u...
Union Gospel Mission wilderness program helps men overcome addiction
June 10, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
GARIBALDI PROVINCIAL PARK — Looking out on Cheakamus Lake, Tom Sauls recalls how he would often stand at Crab Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and gaze north at the mountains, dreaming of someday escaping homelessness and addiction to find refuge in the wilderness. Sauls, 57, would take swi...
Lake declared ‘hero’ for work on opioid crisis
June 07, 2017 | CFJC Today
KAMLOOPS — Four years to the day after he was appointed BC’s Minister of Health, Terry Lake has been honoured for his leadership in addressing the province’s opioid crisis. At a breakfast in Halifax this morning, Lake was given the National Public Health Hero award by the Canadian Publ...
