The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Battle to beat AIDS offers lessons in fighting opioid crisis
January 29, 2017 | Peace Arch News
When asked what title she’d prefer for this story, Valerie Nicholson laughed and said, “Grandmother, first and foremost.” It makes everything she explained later all that more powerful. Nicholson, now a peer researcher with B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, was homeless and...
The worst agony of my life to absolutely normal’
January 28, 2017 | The Globe and Mail
B.C. is leading the way on the use of suboxone to treat opioid addiction, but progress elsewhere has been slow and uneven, reports Wendy Stueck When Caity showed up at St. Paul’s emergency room last October, she was in rough shape. The young woman – The Globe and Mail has agreed to not u...
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...
