The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
How Canada’s Rehab Centres are Failing Drug Users
November 04, 2016 | VICE
Even though she’s next on the list for a bed at one of Manitoba’s best mental health and drug treatment facilities, Destiny Bohemier has been waiting from a hospital in Brandon, Manitoba for more than 10 months. Her friends tried to crowdfund enough money to pay for a private facility th...
Calgary police support province’s move towards safe consumption sites
November 04, 2016 | Metro News
Calgary police said they will act as support to the services offering the safe consumption sites The Calgary Police Service is putting their support firmly behind the province’s decision to explore the use of supervised safe consumption sites to combat the ever-growing opioid problem in Albert...
Cannabis in your blood stream doesn’t mean you’re stoned
November 02, 2016 | The Province
Re: Fatal car crashes triple among drivers high on marijuana after legalization in Colorado; double in Washington state, Oct. 30 Before raising the alarm on cannabis-impaired motor vehicle accidents, the stats presented in this article require additional clarification and contextualization. Unlike a...
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 ove...
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...
