The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Interview with Dr. Keith Ahamad
February 01, 2017 | CBC News
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Vancouver’s frontline fentanyl responders make the case for legalization in private meeting with Trudeau
January 31, 2017 | The Georgia Straight
Prime Minister cites difficulties legalizing marijuana as a barrier to real debate around regulating hard drugs like cocaine and heroin Last Sunday (January 29), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould sat down in Vancouver with a roomful of people on the frontlines o...
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 “”...
