The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
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...
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CALGARY – Canada’s use of methadone in treating fentanyl and other opioid abuse is dangerous and outdated, says a substance abuse expert gathered with others in Banff mapping out addiction strategies.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, buprenorphin...
Interview with Dr. Evan Wood – February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017 | CBC News
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Canada’s treatment of fentanyl, opioid addicts hazardous and outdated, says physician
February 28, 2017 | Calgary Herald
Canada’s use of methadone to treat fentanyl and other opioid abuse is dangerous and outdated, says a substance-abuse expert gathered with others in Banff mapping out addiction strategies. Canada should follow other countries, including the U.S., that have moved toward using another drug, bupre...
