The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
The province says it’s already implementing recommendations made after the death of a 20-year-old man at drug treatment centre on the Sunshine Coast.
January 27, 2017 | Breakfast Television
The province says it’s already implementing recommendations made after the death of a 20-year-old man at drug treatment centre on the Sunshine Coast....
Government funding helps Hope to Health grow
January 26, 2017 | BC Gov News
Some of the province’s most vulnerable people will benefit from research into HIV/AIDS, addiction and viral hepatitis that will be carried out at the world-class Hope to Health Research Centre following a successful expansion project supported in part through $2 million in government funding. ...
Pearson College TEDx event features international flavour
January 25, 2017 | Goldstream Gazette
Students from Pearson College and hundreds of guests from the local community and online put their heads together recently during a TEDx event hosted at the school in Metchosin. Lead organizer, Pearson student Stefan Petrevski, said those in attendance were on the edge of their seats from the beginn...
Ottawa mulls unconventional B.C.-style therapies for opioid addiction
January 19, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
Ottawa will consider adopting national guidelines for prescription heroin and other unconventional therapies to treat severe opioid addiction, looking to guidelines being developed by doctors in British Columbia, where such treatments are already available on a small scale. Federal Health Minister J...
Give free clean drugs to addicted users, say top B.C. health officials
January 19, 2017 | The Province
VICTORIA “” Top health officials in B.C. are actively discussing a plan to prescribe clean heroin or other opioids to people with addictions, in an attempt to stem the rising death toll caused by street drugs tainted with fentanyl. B.C.’s chief medical officer, Dr. Perry Kendall, said ...
