The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Time to Move on Preventing Overdose Deaths
November 10, 2016 | St Pauls Foundation
Imagine the equivalent of three passenger planes filled with young people crashing to the earth every year – that’s the picture Dr. Keith Ahamad uses to describe the public health emergency announced this year in response to overdose deaths in British Columbia. “There’s no es...
Pot ban on drivers won’t work, health experts say
November 08, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
It would be unrealistic to bar drivers from having any trace of marijuana in their system when it becomes legal in Canada, as B.C. has suggested, because the drug can be detected long after a person is impaired, public-health experts say. The federal government’s task force on the future of le...
Experts want national opioid strategy amidst rise in overdose deaths
November 07, 2016 | Metro News
“It is late “” but not too late “” to move toward reducing the toll of opioid overuse and abuse in Canada,” says Dr. Benedikt Fisher of CAMH in Toronto TORONTO “” Canada needs a comprehensive national strategy to curb rampant overprescribing of opioids and to redu...
Curb ‘rampant prescribing of opioids and reduce deaths,’ Canadian doctors say
November 07, 2016 | CBC News
It’s late, but not too late, for Canada to reduce the toll of opioid overuse and abuse Use of prescription opioids in Canada has risen steadily over the past 20 years, with skyrocketing misuse, disorders and deaths, say experts who call for enforceable guidelines and a national strategy to add...
An urgent call to increase access to evidence-based opioid agonist therapy for prescription opioid use disorders
November 07, 2016 | CMAJ
As Fischer and colleagues highlight in a linked Analysis article, the use of prescription opioids among Canadians has increased dramatically in the last two decades, placing our country behind the United States as the second highest consumer of prescription opioids in the world. Paralleling this sta...
