The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Downtown Eastside hosts Trudeau in roundtable meeting on overdose crisis
March 03, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defence met with people on the front lines of B.C.’s overdose crisis on Friday, listening as they spoke candidly about the urgent need to scale up treatment options, the province’s record death toll and the emotional impact it’s had on first responders...
Harm reduction interventions must be scaled up’: top disease expert
March 03, 2017 | Metro News
B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s medical director calls for ‘expanded’ prescription opioids, and slams ‘drug policies that criminalize drug users.’ One of British Columbia’s top experts on diseases has slammed long-standing “drug policies that criminalize drug users,” in an op-ed in...
Red Zones’ Set the Marginalized Up for More Trouble, Study Finds
March 01, 2017 | The Tyee
One in five court-ordered release conditions restrict where a person can go “” with harsh results. A disproportionate number of homeless people, as well as sex workers and drug users, are being unjustly denied access to certain city blocks concentrated in the Downtown Eastside, charges an as-yet...
Top doc says Canada’s opioid treatment is dangerous
February 28, 2017 | canoe.com
CALGARY – Canada’s use of methadone in treating fentanyl and other opioid abuse is dangerous and outdated, says a substance abuse expert gathered with others in Banff mapping out addiction strategies. Other countries, including the U.S., have moved toward using another drug, buprenorphine/naloxo...
Interview with Dr. Evan Wood – February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017 | CBC News
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