The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Interview with Dr. Keith Ahamad | 16-NOV-2016
November 16, 2016 | On The Coast
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Department of Family Medicine member and addictions researcher receives BCCFP award
November 16, 2016 | PHC News
Congratulations to Dr. Keith Ahamad for winning the 2016 British Columbia College of Family Physician Researcher award. In addition to his research with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, with a focus in addictions medicine, Dr. Ahamad is also a member of PHC’s Department of Family Medi...
Time to Move on Preventing Overdose Deaths
November 10, 2016 | St Pauls Foundation
Imagine the equivalent of three passenger planes filled with young people crashing to the earth every year – that’s the picture Dr. Keith Ahamad uses to describe the public health emergency announced this year in response to overdose deaths in British Columbia. “There’s no es...
Pot ban on drivers won’t work, health experts say
November 08, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
It would be unrealistic to bar drivers from having any trace of marijuana in their system when it becomes legal in Canada, as B.C. has suggested, because the drug can be detected long after a person is impaired, public-health experts say. The federal government’s task force on the future of le...
Experts want national opioid strategy amidst rise in overdose deaths
November 07, 2016 | Metro News
“It is late “” but not too late “” to move toward reducing the toll of opioid overuse and abuse in Canada,” says Dr. Benedikt Fisher of CAMH in Toronto TORONTO “” Canada needs a comprehensive national strategy to curb rampant overprescribing of opioids and to redu...
