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B.C. to get $10-million boost to fight opioid crisis
February 17, 2017 | BC Local News
The federal government announced Friday it will spend another $65 million over five years to combat the deadly opioid crisis facing the country, with $10 million coming immediately to B.C. Exactly how that funding is going to be doled out has yet to be determined, but the B.C. government says it wil...
B.C. study to look at how people use marijuana ahead of legalization
February 17, 2017 | Peace Arch News
A new study by the B.C. Centre on Substance Use aims to find out how and why people use marijuana, ahead of the federal government’s move to legalize the drug. It’s the first study in Canada to look at the “full spectrum” of marijuana use, including medical and recreational users, said Dr....
Victoria mother ‘forced’ to buy street drugs to save addicted daughter’s life
February 16, 2017 | Global News
A Victoria mother says she had to make an unimaginable decision to help save her daughter’s life. Correne Antrobus bought street drugs to help treat her daughter’s drug addiction. “Which is just such a foreign thought but we knew we had to get her something until she could get on the program,�...
Researchers say supervised injection sites needed in London
February 16, 2017 | Medical Xpress
There is a need for supervised injection sites, and research has shown that to be the case in some of Canada’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But there is also a need in London, according to a recent study that took a close look at injection drug use in the city. “For...
A timeline of British Columbia’s opioid-substitution program
February 15, 2017 | Times Colonist
VANCOUVER “” British Columbia is the birthplace of methadone maintenance treatment, which has existed in some form in the province for more than half a century. Here is a timeline on how the treatment has evolved over the years: 1959: The world’s first methadone maintenance treatment program i...
