The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Experts sound alarm as B.C. deals with record drug overdose deaths
October 22, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
An overhaul of B.C.’s “dysfunctional” addiction-treatment system must become top priority as drug users struggle to stay alive through an overdose crisis, recovery experts say. In the first nine months of 2016, 555 people died of drug overdoses in the province, up 61 per cent over the same p...
Q&A | Why harm reduction could help win the fight against fentanyl
October 22, 2016 | CBC News
Drug testing kits, safe injection sites keep people alive so they can enter treatment, says HIV researcher Dr. M-J Milloy, a research scientist with the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, says harm reduction efforts could be an important first line of defence in controlling the abus...
Interview with Dr. Evan Wood
October 21, 2016 | On The Coast
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Fentanyl front lines: Fentanyl-linked deaths triple this year
October 21, 2016 | Times Colonist
The fentanyl crisis continues its grim toll with the latest statistics showing more people in B.C. have died from drug overdoses in the first nine months of this year than in all of 2015. There have been 555 deaths as a result of illicit-drug overdoses from January through September, eclipsing the 5...
B.C. has already eclipsed last year’s deadly drug overdose total
October 20, 2016 | CBC News
More than 60 per cent of fatal overdoses in the province have been linked to fentanyl There have been more illicit drug deaths over the first nine months of this year in British Columbia than there were in all of 2015, according to statistics from the B.C. Coroners Service. A total of 508 people die...
