The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Roadblocks to treatment can trigger intravenous drug use in disadvantaged youth
January 06, 2017 | Addictions Now
Researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS conducted a study that examined the relationship between initiation of intravenous drug use (IDU) and the inability to receive addiction therapy among street-involved youth in Canada. “We wanted to understand how common it w...
Mobile Medical Unit brings hope, relief to B.C. overdose victims
January 02, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
The woman sits slouched in a black folding chair, slowly regaining her strength. She is recovering from her second overdose since being released from jail just four days earlier and physicians are watching her closely. She is crying. … It was easier to get street drugs than it was to get help,...
Canada faces deadly fentanyl overdose crisis
January 02, 2017 | Yahoo
Vancouver (AFP) – Sirens scream non-stop through the urban heart of Vancouver, as responders race toward drug addicts overdosing — and dying in such numbers that the city’s morgues are full. This wealthy Pacific coast city is the bleak epicenter of an opioid epidemic that has claim...
Cheque Day in the Downtown Eastside
January 01, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
The prevalence of fentanyl and carfentanil means drug users in the Downtown Eastside are always at risk, but never more so than when social assistance cheques arrive every month. The Globe spent roughly 24 hours in the troubled neighbourhood for a first-hand look at the overdose crisis Deirdre is le...
Les dégâts cérébraux irréversibles des surdoses liées au fentanyl
December 30, 2016 | Radio-Canada
Overdoses caused by fentanyl cause irreversible damage to the brain, and the number of cases in British Columbia is causing concern to the medical community. At St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, physicians have seen an upsurge in catastrophic brain damage since the fentanyl crisis, the powerfu...
