The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
B.C. Opioid Crisis: 15 People Died Of Drug Overdoses In Vancouver In One Week
May 04, 2017 | Huffington Post
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s opioid crisis became a focal point of the province’s election campaign on Thursday after receiving less attention than other issues, despite the ongoing death toll. Fifteen people died of overdoses in Vancouver last week alone, which brought the total number of d...
Opioid crisis draws election debate after 15 people die in Vancouver in one week
May 04, 2017 | Winnipeg Free Press
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s opioid crisis became a focal point of the province’s election campaign on Thursday after receiving less attention than other issues, despite the ongoing death toll. … The NDP has promised to create a standalone Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction, among oth...
Opioid addicts turn to psychedelic plants to treat withdrawal, but doctors warn of risks
May 02, 2017 | CBC News
Maria Michaelides, 36, thought there was no way out. The Kitchener, Ont., woman started taking Percocet for chronic pain five years ago. At first, she used the medication as prescribed. At the time, Michaelides was caught in an abusive relationship that chipped away at her emotional resolve, an...
It’s time to stop opioid prohibition and start regulation
April 28, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Jordan Westfall is president of the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs. Thomas Kerr is a professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia During the era of alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, an average of 1,000 people a year lost their lives from consuming illicitly produced alco...
Record-Breaking Number Of Overdoses In The DTES And Across Metro Vancouver
April 28, 2017 | CKNW
This week has seen record-breaking numbers of overdose numbers in the DTES and across Metro Vancouver – telling us: That the fentanyl crisis may be getting worse, not better, even after all the funding and naloxone availability and efforts to ban pill presses That the “Welfare Wednesday” syste...
