The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
How one person’s drug addiction affects their entire family
May 18, 2016 | CBC News
June Ariano-Jakes, author of Addiction: A Mother’s Story, Dr. Keith Ahamad, a family physician certified in addiction medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, and Doug Mackenzie, program director at Options Okanagan Treatment Centre, on drug addiction....
Psychiatric drugs killing more users than heroin, cocaine, say health experts
May 17, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
Health professionals are sounding the alarm over the heightened risk of death linked to the use of psychiatric drugs, which was highlighted in a pair of Vancouver-based studies published this month. Benzodiazepine (BZD) is a class of psychiatric medications known as “tranquilizers” whi...
CBC: Interview with Dr. Thomas Kerr on safe injection sites
May 16, 2016 | CBC News
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CBC: Interview with Dr. M-J Milloy on opioid abuse
April 28, 2016 | CBS
Chad hears from Dr. M-J Milloy, research scientist with theBC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, about Canada’s role in fighting Opioid abuse....
FBI, DEA produce documentary warning teens about heroin
April 24, 2016 | Chicago Tribune
A few dozen teachers sat in an auditorium at Westmont High School last week and watched a tale of darkness: seven people, three of them incarcerated, speaking on video about the depths to which their opioid addictions had taken them. Such cautionary tales have long been a staple of drug education, b...
