The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Could B.C.’s safe drug supply experiment work in Washington?
July 15, 2024 | Crosscut (Cascade PBS)
If you met BeeLee Lee in the lobby of her apartment building in Vancouver, British Columbia, you probably wouldn’t suspect that just a few years ago, she nearly died several times from fentanyl overdoses. Lee, who’s nearly always accompanied by Sadie, her loyal labrador/husky companion, now has ...
Health experts bristle as Poilievre pledges drug consumption site restrictions
July 12, 2024 | CTV News Vancouver
Ratcheting up the rhetoric amid a toxic drug crisis which has claimed the lives of thousands of people over the last decade, Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would cancel federal funding for drug consumption sites. He also says he’d shut down any sites where he claims they enda...
Should illicit drugs become a regulated substance?
July 08, 2024 | CKNW - Mornings with Simi
Episode Description The current approach of drug prohibition has led to a toxic, unregulated drug supply that’s primarily controlled by organized crime. Could drug regulation be the best way out of the toxic drug crisis? Guest: Dr. Kora DeBeck, Distinguished Associate Professor in the School of P...
Drug prohibition is fuelling the overdose crisis: Regulating drugs is the way out
July 04, 2024 | The Conversation
Should heroin and cocaine be legally available to people who need and want them? If we are serious about stopping the crisis of drug overdose deaths, that is exactly the kind of profound change we need. Yes, extensive regulations would be necessary. In fact, the whole point of regulating drug produc...
Public disorder up on Metro Vancouver’s transit system as ridership grows
June 05, 2024 | Vancouver Sun
As transit ridership approached pre-pandemic levels in 2023, calls to Transit Police for drug, alcohol or mental health cases jumped, according to figures from the Metro Vancouver Transit Police. There were more than 600 such calls in 2023, or about 2.6 calls for every million trips taken on tran...
