The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Asbestos. Alcoholism during the holidays
December 16, 2016 | CBC News
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Report on local drug injection site set for new year
December 13, 2016 | tbnewswatch
The results of a feasibility study into a supervised drug injection facility for Thunder Bay will be made public in February. The findings were originally scheduled to be released this week, but the parties involved in the study announced a postponement, saying that the report is still being drafted...
Province moves mobile hospital to DTES to help ease OD overload at St. Paul’s
December 12, 2016 | The Province
The province’s mobile medical unit has served as a M.A.S.H.-like emergency room at the Olympics, festivals and outside hospitals being renovated: On Tuesday it begins saving lives in the Downtown Eastside. Inside a tent with all the necessary equipment and staffed with a half-dozen emergency d...
New safe injection sites will be in place ahead of federal legislation change: Lake
December 12, 2016 | Metro News
Changes are coming to a restrictive federal law, but B.C.’s health minister says health agencies won’t have to wait to have applications sped up B.C.’s health minister believes health agencies won’t necessarily have to wait for federal legislation to pass before having their ...
B.C. Centre on Substance Use recommends Suboxone over methadone
December 09, 2016 | CBC News
Health experts sharing key findings of new provincial opioid guidelines ahead of the papers’ publish date In the face of the growing fentanyl crisis in B.C., opioid researchers are sharing the key findings of the provincial opioid addiction guidelines with front-line health care workers, a mon...
