The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
EDITORIAL: Opioid support welcome news
February 12, 2017 | The Morning Star
The provincial government is boosting funding for one of the organizations trying to aid addicts. Health Minister Terry Lake has announced $5 million of extra funding for the B.C. Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and an additional $1.9 million for ongoing operations funding. It’s that last part tha...
Londoners take a step towards supervised injection services
February 10, 2017 | Strathroyagedispatch
London broke a record in 2016: the Middlesex-London Health Unit confirmed 58 new cases of HIV, the most ever reported in one year. About 70 per cent of those cases, according to the Health Unit, are due to injection drug use at a time when HIV rates are declining elsewhere across Ontario. The provin...
Beyond harm reduction
February 10, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Sixteen years after Vancouver formally adopted a ‘four pillars’ approach to drug strategy, the city – and the province – finds itself in the grip of an overdose crisis, reports Andrea Woo Melody Cooper throws a purple ball across the well-worn grass at the East Vancouver dog park, sending he...
