The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
B.C. suspends harm-reduction vending machines pending review
September 12, 2024 | CBC News
Automated kiosks that dispense harm-reduction supplies on Vancouver Island have been suspended or removed while the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions conducts a review. The kiosks, which had been placed at hospitals in Nanaimo, Campbell River and Victoria in the fall of 2023, offered free acc...
Checked: BC Conservatives on Harm Reduction Vending Machines
September 06, 2024 | The Tyee
“Let’s go get a free crack pipe and cocaine smoking kit,” says Conservative Party of BC candidate Gwen O’Mahony, looking stonily at the camera. O’Mahony, who is running in the new Nanaimo-Lantzville riding, is the former NDP MLA for Chilliwack-Hope. According to her Conservative candidate...
“Cannabis Substitution Therapy”: Can Cannabis Ease Opioid Withdrawal?
September 05, 2024 | Talking Drugs
Rosie Rurka had a reputation as the frontline drugs worker who brought people back from the dead with naloxone after they had overdosed at the beginning of British Columbia’s overdose crisis. Now, she is better known for supplying people addicted to opioids with high-dose cannabis edibles, in a ...
Mom who lost son to overdose speaks to raise awareness
August 30, 2024 | Times Colonist
Leslie Mcbain lost her son to a drug overdose 10 years ago. Since then, she has worked to help others whose loved ones also died from substance use. Mcbain said her son, Jordan Miller, was 25 when he died from a combination of pharmaceutical drugs in 2014. It led her to co-found the group Moms Stop ...
New St. Paul’s program offers fast, long-term help to those seeking addiction recovery
August 27, 2024 | Vancouver Sun
It was the bed that changed everything — comforting and soft, with a thin blue curtain for privacy. “That bed showed me what life could be like,” said Ryan Top, a recovering alcoholic and addict. Top said his life was saved by Road to Recovery, a new program at St. Paul’s Hospital. Opened in...
