The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
Addiction physicians: Canada is “hemorrhaging healthcare dollars”
October 20, 2016 | iPOLITICS
The healthcare system is a “deer in the headlights” when it comes to addictions treatment Physicians specializing in addictions treatment told the Commons Heath Committee Thursday that a lack of addictions funding, comprehensive treatment programs and healthcare addiction training in C...
Two new health-care centres proposed for the Downtown Eastside amid a host of service changes on the way
October 19, 2016 | The Georgia Straight
During the past five years, mental-health and addiction problems have simultaneously intensified in Vancouver, and to shocking extents. In 2015, there were 505 illicit-drug overdose deaths in B.C., more than double the number from five years earlier. At the same time, the number of apprehensions Van...
