The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
B.C. health officer leads push for European-style heroin treatment programs
January 30, 2017 | Vancouver Sun
VICTORIA – Prescribing medicinal heroin to prevent overdose deaths might appear to clash with common sense, but the provincial health officer in B.C. is backing the idea because he says European-style drug treatment programs work. The arrival of the powerful opioid fentanyl drove B.C.’s ...
THE FENTANYL FIX Could blocking illegal fentanyl from China solve the B.C. opioid crisis?
January 30, 2017 | CBC News
UN specialist on synthetic drugs says past diplomatic efforts were useful, but current crisis is more complex It weighed only 1.45 kilograms, but the international parcel destined for Victoria could have killed 725,000 people. The package contained the potent street drug fentanyl and it was just one...
Opinion | Strengthening our response to B.C.’s opioid crisis
January 30, 2017 | CBC News
Health minister shares his views as part of our series, The Fentanyl Fix, solutions to B.C’s overdose crisis British Columbia is experiencing one of the most tragic health crises of our time. Over the last year, more than 900 people died of illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia “”...
Battle to beat AIDS offers lessons in fighting opioid crisis
January 29, 2017 | Peace Arch News
When asked what title she’d prefer for this story, Valerie Nicholson laughed and said, “Grandmother, first and foremost.” It makes everything she explained later all that more powerful. Nicholson, now a peer researcher with B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, was homeless and...
The worst agony of my life to absolutely normal’
January 28, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
B.C. is leading the way on the use of suboxone to treat opioid addiction, but progress elsewhere has been slow and uneven, reports Wendy Stueck When Caity showed up at St. Paul’s emergency room last October, she was in rough shape. The young woman – The Globe and Mail has agreed to not u...
