The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
‘Gray Death’ Is the Latest Dangerous Street Drug
May 22, 2017 | healthline
Experts say this new opioid cocktail is a combination of three drugs, each individually more powerful than heroin. It’s called “gray death” and apparently for good reason. This dangerous opioid cocktail is responsible for a spate of fatal overdoses in the United States, and its potency has aut...
The expanding universe of synthetic drugs
May 20, 2017 | The Economist
From “legal highs” to fentanyl, there are more drugs on offer than ever before INSIDE a brightly lit shop in Amsterdam half a dozen people inspect the wares. Alongside the bongs, vibrators and heart-shaped key rings in its glass displays are rows of small silver packets emblazoned with names suc...
Study suggests cannabis may reduce crack use
May 19, 2017 | Medical Xpress
North America is in the midst of a drug overdose disaster. In British Columbia, Canada, where nearly 1,000 people died of overdose in 2016, officials have declared a public health emergency. While over-prescription of painkillers and contamination of the illegal opioid supply by fentanyl, a potent s...
Marijuana Treatment And How Smoking Weed Can Help Ease The Crack Epidemic
May 19, 2017 | International Business Times
North America is in the midst of a drug overdose disaster. In British Columbia, Canada, where nearly 1,000 people died of overdose in 2016, officials have declared a public health emergency. While over-prescription of painkillers and contamination of the illegal opioid supply by fentanyl, a potent s...
Transmission of HIV drug resistance increases among illegal drug users in Vancouver
May 19, 2017 | Healio
The prevalence of transmitted drug resistance in people with HIV who were using illegal drugs increased significantly over a 20-year period in Vancouver, British Columbia, researchers wrote in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “Our findings support baseline resistance testing early in the course of HI...
