The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Keith Ahamad – “Addiction Is Not A Choice”
March 07, 2017 | Vancouver is Awesome
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Justin Trudeau talks B.C.’s opioid crisis in Vancouver
March 03, 2017 | The now
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver Friday morning, hearing from first responders about B.C.’s opioid crisis, and participating in a Q and A session with politically-minded youth. Trudeau visited the new Hope to Health Research Clinic in the Downtown Eastside for a round-table discu...
Irish GPs support wider use of naloxone to treat opiate addiction
March 03, 2017 | bmj
Two thirds of GPs in Ireland support planned initiatives to provide wider availability of naloxone in the community for treating opiate addiction and overdose, a survey has found. More than 200 deaths due to opiate overdose occur each year in Ireland, one of the highest rates in Europe. Naloxone is ...
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 ...
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 d...
